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brotli_compress_decompress_byte_string_quickstart.py

python

Compresses and decompresses a byte string using the official Google Brotli Python

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brotli_compress_decompress_byte_string_quickstart.py
1import brotli
2
3# Data to compress
4data = b"Brotli compression is efficient and effective for web content."
5
6# Compress the data
7# quality: 0-11 (11 is highest compression, slowest)
8# lgwin: 10-24 (base 2 logarithm of the sliding window size)
9compressed = brotli.compress(data, quality=11, lgwin=22)
10
11# Decompress the data
12decompressed = brotli.decompress(compressed)
13
14# Verify results
15print(f"Original size: {len(data)}")
16print(f"Compressed size: {len(compressed)}")
17print(f"Success: {data == decompressed}")