Multithreaded compression/decompression library with python bindings?

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:19 pm, Thomas Nyberg wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone here knew of any python libraries with
> interfaces similar to the bzip2 module which is also multithreaded in
> (de)compression? Something along the lines of (say) the pbip2 program
> but with bindings for python?

pbip2? Never heard of it, and googling comes up with nothing relevant.

Got a link?


> Obviously the multi-threaded part will 
> need to be handled by the underlying library code and not the python
> code itself.

Why obviously?


> 
> If that's too much to ask (I haven't found anything myself after all),
> if anyone here happens to have any experience using similar C++ (or
> possibly C) libraries I am certainly open for any recommendations. :)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Thomas

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