Inspired by the python-lz4 library, this package provides yet another bindings for the lz4 compression library by Yann Collet. Compared to the python-lz4 library, it provides bindings to the unframed API including LZ4_compress_default() and LZ4_decompress_safe() so that it can be used along with the python-hadoop package to read data for customized framing such as the Hadoop SequenceFile format.

The package is hosted on PyPI:

$ pip install lz4-raw
$ easy_install lz4-raw