============================= Announcing python-blosc 1.0.5 ============================= What is it? =========== 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. python-blosc is a Python package that wraps it. What is new? ============ - Upgraded to latest Blosc 1.1.4. - Better handling of condition errors, and improved memory releasing in case of errors (thanks to Valentin Haenel and Han Genuit). - Better handling of types (should compile without warning now, at least with GCC). 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 Download sources ================ 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. Mailing list ============ There is an official mailing list for Blosc at: blosc@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.es/group/blosc -- Francesc Alted