pyarrow.compress#

pyarrow.compress(buf,codec='lz4',asbytes=False,memory_pool=None)#

Compress data from buffer-like object.

Parameters:

bufpyarrow.Buffer,bytes, or other object supporting buffer protocol

codecstr, default ‘lz4’

Compression codec.Supported types: {‘brotli, ‘gzip’, ‘lz4’, ‘lz4_raw’, ‘snappy’, ‘zstd’}

asbytesbool, defaultFalse

Return result as Python bytes object, otherwise Buffer.

memory_poolMemoryPool, defaultNone

Memory pool to use for buffer allocations, if any.

Returns:

compressedpyarrow.Buffer orbytes (if asbytes=True)