commit 04607923831336d0b3542f52076aae79010af191
Author: hellerve <veit@veitheller.de>
Date:   Wed May 9 00:23:21 2018 +0200

    initial

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+# se
+
+A simple data compressor as presented by Gary Bernhardt in [his
+screencast](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/data-compressor-from-scratch),
+ported to Python.
diff --git a/se.py b/se.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import operator
+
+class Node:
+    def __init__(self, left, right, count):
+        self.left = left
+        self.right = right
+        self.count = count
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        return 'Node(left={}, right={}, count={})'.format(self.left,
+                                                          self.right,
+                                                          self.count)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.__unicode__()
+
+
+class Leaf:
+    def __init__(self, byte, count):
+        self.byte = byte
+        self.count = count
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        return 'Leaf(byte={}, count={})'.format(self.byte, self.count)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.__unicode__()
+
+
+class TableRow:
+    def __init__(self, byte, bits):
+        self.byte = byte
+        self.bits = bits
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        return 'TableRow(byte={}, bits={})'.format(self.byte, self.bits)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.__unicode__()
+
+
+class BinPacker:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.a = []
+
+    def bits(self, bits):
+        self.a.extend(bits)
+
+    def int32(self, int32):
+        return self.int(32, int32)
+
+    def int8(self, int8):
+        return self.int(8, int8)
+
+    def int(self, n, intn):
+        a = []
+        for i in range(n):
+            a.append(intn & 1)
+            intn = intn >> 1
+        self.a.extend(a)
+
+    def pack(self):
+        x = []
+        e = 0
+        for i, b in enumerate(self.a):
+            if i and not i % 8:
+                x.append(e)
+                e = 0
+            e += b << (i % 8)
+        x.append(e)
+        return x
+
+
+class BinUnpacker:
+    def __init__(self, data):
+        self.a = BinUnpacker.unpack(data)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def unpack(data):
+        a = []
+        for e in data:
+            for i in range(8):
+                a.append(e & 1)
+                e = e >> 1
+        return a
+
+    def int(self, n):
+        a = self.a[:n]
+        self.a = self.a[n:]
+        x = 0
+        for i, e in enumerate(a):
+            x = x + (e << i)
+        return x
+
+    def int8(self):
+        return self.int(8)
+
+    def int32(self):
+        return self.int(32)
+
+    def bits(self, n):
+        a = self.a[:n]
+        self.a = self.a[n:]
+        return a
+
+    def peek(self, n):
+        return self.a[:n]
+
+
+def lookup_byte(table, byte):
+    for row in table:
+        if row.byte == byte:
+            return row.bits
+    raise RuntimeError("Internal Error")
+
+
+def lookup_bits(table, unpacker):
+    for row in table:
+        if row.bits == unpacker.peek(len(row.bits)):
+            unpacker.bits(len(row.bits))
+            return row.byte
+    raise RuntimeError("Internal Error")
+
+
+def pack_table(table, packer):
+    packer.int8(len(table) - 1)
+    for row in table:
+        packer.int8(ord(row.byte))
+        packer.int8(len(row.bits))
+        packer.bits(row.bits)
+
+
+def unpack_table(unpacker):
+    table_len = unpacker.int8() + 1
+    table = []
+    for _ in range(table_len):
+        byte = chr(unpacker.int8())
+        n = unpacker.int8()
+        bits = unpacker.bits(n)
+        table.append(TableRow(byte, bits))
+    return table
+
+
+def compress(original):
+    tree = build_tree(original)
+    table = build_table(tree)
+    packer = BinPacker()
+
+    pack_table(table, packer)
+    packer.int32(len(original))
+
+    for byte in bytes(original):
+        bits = lookup_byte(table, byte)
+        packer.bits(bits)
+
+    return packer.pack()
+
+
+def decompress(data):
+    unpacker = BinUnpacker(data)
+
+    table = unpack_table(unpacker)
+    data_len = unpacker.int32()
+
+    s = []
+    for i in range(data_len):
+        s.append(lookup_bits(table, unpacker))
+
+    return "".join(s)
+
+
+
+def build_table(node, path=None):
+    if not path: path = []
+
+    if isinstance(node, Node):
+        return build_table(node.left, path + [0]) + build_table(node.right, path + [1])
+    return [TableRow(node.byte, path)]
+
+
+def build_tree(original):
+    bs = bytes(original)
+    unique_bs = set(bs)
+
+    leaves = []
+    for byte in unique_bs:
+        leaves.append(Leaf(byte, bs.count(byte)))
+
+    while len(leaves) > 1:
+        l = min(leaves, key=operator.attrgetter("count"))
+        leaves.remove(l)
+        r = min(leaves, key=operator.attrgetter("count"))
+        leaves.remove(r)
+        leaves.append(Node(l, r, l.count + r.count))
+
+    return leaves[0]
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == "compress":
+    print("".join(chr(n) for n in compress(sys.stdin.read())))
+else:
+    print(decompress([ord(n) for n in sys.stdin.read()]))