Varints, a method of serializing integers using one or more bytes
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pyvarint
Varints, a method of serializing integers using one or more bytes
Generally in Python, integers are stored as long meaning that they will use at least 32 bits. When storing many numbers which do not require 32 bits, this would seem to be significantly wasteful; variable length representation should be able to assist in such cases.
Install
$ pip install pyvarint
Example
from random import sample
from pyvarint import decode, encode
ten_rand_ints = sample(range(100), 10)
for rand_int in ten_rand_ints:
encoded = encode(rand_int)
decoded = decode(encoded)
assert decoded == rand_int