A Python wrapper for the Blosc compression library.
Blosc (http://blosc.pytables.org) is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call.
Blosc works well for compressing numerical arrays that contains data with relatively low entropy, like sparse data, time series, grids with regular-spaced values, etc.
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For more info, you can see the release notes in:
https://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc/wiki/Release-notes
More docs and examples are available in the Quick User's Guide wiki page:
https://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc/wiki/Quick-User's-Guide
Go to:
http://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc
and download the most recent release from there.
Blosc is distributed using the MIT license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for details.
There is an official mailing list for Blosc at: