kiel.compression.snappy
¶kiel.compression.snappy.
compress
(data)[source]¶Compresses given data via the snappy algorithm.
The result is preceded with a header containing the string ‘SNAPPY’ and the
default and min-compat versions (both 1
).
The block size for the compression is hard-coded at 32kb.
If python-snappy
is not installed a RuntimeError
is raised.