termformat 
Erlang External Term Format (de)serialization module.
Installation
termformat supports both Python 2.7+ and 3.3+ versions including PyPy.
$ apt-get install python-dev
$ pip install termformatUsage
import termformat
binary = termformat.encode(20) # => b'\x83a\x14'
print termformat.decode(binary) # => 20
print termformat.is_atom(":foo") # => True
print termformat.atom_to_binary(":foo") # => "foo"
print termformat.binary_to_atom("foo") # => ":foo"
data = [0 for _ in range(1024)]
compressed = termformat.encode(data, compressed=6)
assert len(compressed) < len(termformat.encode(data))
Datatypes representation
| Type | Python | Erlang |
| Integer | int, long | SMALL_INT_EXT, INT_EXT, SMALL_BIG_EXT, LARGE_BIG_EXT |
| Float | float | FLOAT_EXT, NEW_FLOAT_EXT* |
| String | str, unicode, bytes | BINARY_EXT, STRING_EXT* |
| Atom | String with ":" prefix | ATOM_EXT |
| Tuple | tuple | SMALL_TUPLE_EXT, LARGE_TUPLE_EXT |
| List | list | LIST_EXT, NIL_EXT |
[1] Only decoding support
[2] If you need to encode/decode more complex types (such as booleans, datetime objects and dictionaries), see beretta
