Huffman's Compression Algorithm
Implemented via this video. Read more here. Fixed byte decoding/encoding issue with help from this post. Actual motivating factor along with avoiding an international relations essay. What I like to think motivated me.
Example Usage
example.py
from huffman import compress, decompress
# obviously you can compress much larger things...
data = "Avocados are super tasty!"
# compress
compressed = compress(data)
# decompress
decompressed = decompress(compressed)
print(decoded)terminal
> python example.py
"Avocados are super tasty!"
For a more interesting and complete example, see example.py.
Stats
Compressed the entire Illiad and compared against ASCII encoding.
Compressed size: 54.4% of original
Size of huffman compressed file: 446.6kb
Size of ascii compressed file: 807.45kb
Size of uncompressed file: 820.89kb
Time to encode Huffman: 1.55 sec
Time to encode ASCII: 5.10 sec
Time to decode Huffman: 2.75 sec