pysapcompress library

Library implementing SAP’s LZH and LZC compression algorithms.

exception pysapcompress.CompressError

exception pysapcompress.DecompressError

pysapcompress.compress()

Compress a buffer using SAP’s compression algorithms.

Parameters:

• in (str) – input buffer to compress
• algorithm (int) – algorithm to use

Returns:

tuple with return code, output length and output buffer

Return type:

tuple of int, int, string

Raises:

CompressError – if an error occurred during compression

pysapcompress.decompress()

Decompress a buffer using SAP’s compression algorithms.

Parameters:

• in (str) – input buffer to decompress
• out_length (int) – length of the output to decompress

Returns:

tuple of return code, output length and output buffer

Return type:

tuple of int, int, string

Raises:

DecompressError – if an error occurred during decompression