MsgPack

class numcodecs.msgpacks.MsgPack(encoding='utf-8')

Codec to encode data as msgpacked bytes. Useful for encoding an array of Python string objects.

Notes

Requires msgpack-python to be installed.

Examples

>>> import numcodecs
>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], dtype='object')
>>> codec = numcodecs.MsgPack()
>>> codec.decode(codec.encode(x))
array(['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], dtype=object)
codec_id = 'msgpack'
encode(buf)
decode(buf, out=None)
get_config()
from_config(config)

Instantiate codec from a configuration object.