Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: bitarray
Version: 2.1.1
Summary: efficient arrays of booleans -- C extension
Home-page: https://github.com/ilanschnell/bitarray
Author: Ilan Schnell
Author-email: ilanschnell@gmail.com
License: PSF
Description: bitarray: efficient arrays of booleans
        ======================================
        
        This library provides an object type which efficiently represents an array
        of booleans.  Bitarrays are sequence types and behave very much like usual
        lists.  Eight bits are represented by one byte in a contiguous block of
        memory.  The user can select between two representations: little-endian
        and big-endian.  All of the functionality is implemented in C.
        Methods for accessing the machine representation are provided.
        This can be useful when bit level access to binary files is required,
        such as portable bitmap image files (.pbm).  Also, when dealing with
        compressed data which uses variable bit length encoding, you may find
        this module useful.
        
        
        Key features
        ------------
        
        * All functionality implemented in C.
        * Bitarray objects behave very much like a list object, in particular
          slicing (including slice assignment and deletion) is supported.
        * The bit endianness can be specified for each bitarray object, see below.
        * Fast methods for encoding and decoding variable bit length prefix codes
        * Bitwise operations: ``~``, ``&``, ``|``, ``^``, ``<<``, ``>>`` (as well as
          their in-place versions ``&=``, ``|=``, ``^=``, ``<<=``, ``>>=``).
        * Sequential search
        * Packing and unpacking to other binary data formats, e.g. ``numpy.ndarray``.
        * Pickling and unpickling of bitarray objects.
        * Bitarray objects support the buffer protocol
        * ``frozenbitarray`` objects which are hashable
        * Extensive test suite with over 300 unittests
        * Utility module ``bitarray.util``:
        
          * conversion to hexadecimal string
          * serialization
          * pretty printing
          * conversion to integers
          * creating Huffman codes
          * various count functions
          * other helpful functions
        
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        If you have a working C compiler, you can simply:
        
        .. code-block:: shell-session
        
            $ pip install bitarray
        
        If you rather want to use precompiled binaries, you can:
        
        * ``conda install bitarray`` (both the default Anaconda repository as well
          as conda-forge support bitarray)
        * download Windows wheels from
          `Chris Gohlke <https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#bitarray>`__
        
        Once you have installed the package, you may want to test it:
        
        .. code-block:: shell-session
        
            $ python -c 'import bitarray; bitarray.test()'
            bitarray is installed in: /Users/ilan/bitarray/bitarray
            bitarray version: 2.1.1
            sys.version: 2.7.15 (default, Mar  5 2020, 14:58:04) [GCC Clang 9.0.1]
            sys.prefix: /Users/ilan/Mini3/envs/py27
            pointer size: 64 bit
            .........................................................................
            .........................................................................
            .............................................................
            ----------------------------------------------------------------------
            Ran 339 tests in 0.329s
        
            OK
        
        You can always import the function test,
        and ``test().wasSuccessful()`` will return ``True`` when the test went well.
        
        
        Using the module
        ----------------
        
        As mentioned above, bitarray objects behave very much like lists, so
        there is not too much to learn.  The biggest difference from list
        objects (except that bitarray are obviously homogeneous) is the ability
        to access the machine representation of the object.
        When doing so, the bit endianness is of importance; this issue is
        explained in detail in the section below.  Here, we demonstrate the
        basic usage of bitarray objects:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> from bitarray import bitarray
            >>> a = bitarray()         # create empty bitarray
            >>> a.append(1)
            >>> a.extend([1, 0])
            >>> a
            bitarray('110')
            >>> x = bitarray(2 ** 20)  # bitarray of length 1048576 (uninitialized)
            >>> bitarray('1001 011')   # initialize from string (whitespace is ignored)
            bitarray('1001011')
            >>> lst = [1, 0, False, True, True]
            >>> a = bitarray(lst)      # initialize from iterable
            >>> a
            bitarray('10011')
            >>> a.count(1)
            3
            >>> a.remove(0)            # removes first occurrence of 0
            >>> a
            bitarray('1011')
        
        Like lists, bitarray objects support slice assignment and deletion:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray(50)
            >>> a.setall(0)            # set all elements in a to 0
            >>> a[11:37:3] = 9 * bitarray('1')
            >>> a
            bitarray('00000000000100100100100100100100100100000000000000')
            >>> del a[12::3]
            >>> a
            bitarray('0000000000010101010101010101000000000')
            >>> a[-6:] = bitarray('10011')
            >>> a
            bitarray('000000000001010101010101010100010011')
            >>> a += bitarray('000111')
            >>> a[9:]
            bitarray('001010101010101010100010011000111')
        
        In addition, slices can be assigned to booleans, which is easier (and
        faster) than assigning to a bitarray in which all values are the same:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = 20 * bitarray('0')
            >>> a[1:15:3] = True
            >>> a
            bitarray('01001001001001000000')
        
        This is easier and faster than:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = 20 * bitarray('0')
            >>> a[1:15:3] = 5 * bitarray('1')
            >>> a
            bitarray('01001001001001000000')
        
        Note that in the latter we have to create a temporary bitarray whose length
        must be known or calculated.  Another example of assigning slices to Booleans,
        is setting ranges:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray(30)
            >>> a[:] = 0         # set all elements to 0 - equivalent to a.setall(0)
            >>> a[10:25] = 1     # set elements in range(10, 25) to 1
            >>> a
            bitarray('000000000011111111111111100000')
        
        
        Bitwise operators
        -----------------
        
        Bitarray objects support the bitwise operators ``~``, ``&``, ``|``, ``^``,
        ``<<``, ``>>`` (as well as their in-place versions ``&=``, ``|=``, ``^=``,
        ``<<=``, ``>>=``).  The behavior is very much what one would expect:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray('101110001')
            >>> ~a  # invert
            bitarray('010001110')
            >>> b = bitarray('111001011')
            >>> a ^ b
            bitarray('010111010')
            >>> a &= b
            >>> a
            bitarray('101000001')
            >>> a <<= 2
            >>> a
            bitarray('100000100')
            >>> b >> 1
            bitarray('011100101')
        
        The C language does not specify the behavior of negative shifts and
        of left shifts larger or equal than the width of the promoted left operand.
        The exact behavior is compiler/machine specific.
        This Python bitarray library specifies the behavior as follows:
        
        * the length of the bitarray is never changed by any shift operation
        * blanks are filled by 0
        * negative shifts raise ``ValueError``
        * shifts larger or equal to the length of the bitarray result in
          bitarrays with all values 0
        
        
        Bit endianness
        --------------
        
        Unless explicitly converting to machine representation, using
        the ``.tobytes()``, ``.frombytes()``, ``.tofile()`` and ``.fromfile()``
        methods, as well as using ``memoryview``, the bit endianness will have no
        effect on any computation, and one can skip this section.
        
        Since bitarrays allows addressing individual bits, where the machine
        represents 8 bits in one byte, there are two obvious choices for this
        mapping: little-endian and big-endian.
        
        When dealing with the machine representation of bitarray objects, it is
        recommended to always explicitly specify the endianness.
        
        By default, bitarrays use big-endian representation:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray()
            >>> a.endian()
            'big'
            >>> a.frombytes(b'A')
            >>> a
            bitarray('01000001')
            >>> a[6] = 1
            >>> a.tobytes()
            b'C'
        
        Big-endian means that the most-significant bit comes first.
        Here, ``a[0]`` is the lowest address (index) and most significant bit,
        and ``a[7]`` is the highest address and least significant bit.
        
        When creating a new bitarray object, the endianness can always be
        specified explicitly:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray(endian='little')
            >>> a.frombytes(b'A')
            >>> a
            bitarray('10000010')
            >>> a.endian()
            'little'
        
        Here, the low-bit comes first because little-endian means that increasing
        numeric significance corresponds to an increasing address.
        So ``a[0]`` is the lowest address and least significant bit,
        and ``a[7]`` is the highest address and most significant bit.
        
        The bit endianness is a property of the bitarray object.
        The endianness cannot be changed once a bitarray object is created.
        When comparing bitarray objects, the endianness (and hence the machine
        representation) is irrelevant; what matters is the mapping from indices
        to bits:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> bitarray('11001', endian='big') == bitarray('11001', endian='little')
            True
        
        Bitwise operations (``|``, ``^``, ``&=``, ``|=``, ``^=``, ``~``) are
        implemented efficiently using the corresponding byte operations in C, i.e. the
        operators act on the machine representation of the bitarray objects.
        Therefore, it is not possible to perform bitwise operators on bitarrays
        with different endianness.
        
        When converting to and from machine representation, using
        the ``.tobytes()``, ``.frombytes()``, ``.tofile()`` and ``.fromfile()``
        methods, the endianness matters:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray(endian='little')
            >>> a.frombytes(b'\x01')
            >>> a
            bitarray('10000000')
            >>> b = bitarray(endian='big')
            >>> b.frombytes(b'\x80')
            >>> b
            bitarray('10000000')
            >>> a == b
            True
            >>> a.tobytes() == b.tobytes()
            False
        
        As mentioned above, the endianness can not be changed once an object is
        created.  However, you can create a new bitarray with different endianness:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray('111000', endian='little')
            >>> b = bitarray(a, endian='big')
            >>> b
            bitarray('111000')
            >>> a == b
            True
        
        
        Buffer protocol
        ---------------
        
        Python 2.7 provides memoryview objects, which allow Python code to access
        the internal data of an object that supports the buffer protocol without
        copying.  Bitarray objects support this protocol, with the memory being
        interpreted as simple bytes:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a = bitarray('01000001 01000010 01000011', endian='big')
            >>> v = memoryview(a)
            >>> len(v)
            3
            >>> v[-1]
            67
            >>> v[:2].tobytes()
            b'AB'
            >>> v.readonly  # changing a bitarray's memory is also possible
            False
            >>> v[1] = 111
            >>> a
            bitarray('010000010110111101000011')
        
        
        Variable bit length prefix codes
        --------------------------------
        
        The ``.encode()`` method takes a dictionary mapping symbols to bitarrays
        and an iterable, and extends the bitarray object with the encoded symbols
        found while iterating.  For example:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> d = {'H':bitarray('111'), 'e':bitarray('0'),
            ...      'l':bitarray('110'), 'o':bitarray('10')}
            ...
            >>> a = bitarray()
            >>> a.encode(d, 'Hello')
            >>> a
            bitarray('111011011010')
        
        Note that the string ``'Hello'`` is an iterable, but the symbols are not
        limited to characters, in fact any immutable Python object can be a symbol.
        Taking the same dictionary, we can apply the ``.decode()`` method which will
        return a list of the symbols:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> a.decode(d)
            ['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']
            >>> ''.join(a.decode(d))
            'Hello'
        
        Since symbols are not limited to being characters, it is necessary to return
        them as elements of a list, rather than simply returning the joined string.
        The above dictionary ``d`` can be efficiently constructed using the function
        ``bitarray.util.huffman_code()``.  I also wrote `Huffman coding in Python
        using bitarray <http://ilan.schnell-web.net/prog/huffman/>`__ for more
        background information.
        
        When the codes are large, and you have many decode calls, most time will
        be spent creating the (same) internal decode tree objects.  In this case,
        it will be much faster to create a ``decodetree`` object, which can be
        passed to bitarray's ``.decode()`` and ``.iterdecode()`` methods, instead
        of passing the prefix code dictionary to those methods itself:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> from bitarray import bitarray, decodetree
            >>> t = decodetree({'a': bitarray('0'), 'b': bitarray('1')})
            >>> a = bitarray('0110')
            >>> a.decode(t)
            ['a', 'b', 'b', 'a']
            >>> ''.join(a.iterdecode(t))
            'abba'
        
        The ``decodetree`` object is immutable and unhashable, and it's sole purpose
        is to be passed to bitarray's `.decode()` and `.iterdecode()` methods.
        
        
        Frozenbitarrays
        ---------------
        
        A ``frozenbitarray`` object is very similar to the bitarray object.
        The difference is that this a ``frozenbitarray`` is immutable, and hashable,
        and can therefore be used as a dictionary key:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            >>> from bitarray import frozenbitarray
            >>> key = frozenbitarray('1100011')
            >>> {key: 'some value'}
            {frozenbitarray('1100011'): 'some value'}
            >>> key[3] = 1
            Traceback (most recent call last):
              File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
              File "bitarray/__init__.py", line 41, in __delitem__
                raise TypeError("'frozenbitarray' is immutable")
            TypeError: 'frozenbitarray' is immutable
        
        
        Reference
        =========
        
        bitarray version: 2.1.1 -- `change log <https://github.com/ilanschnell/bitarray/blob/master/doc/changelog.rst>`__
        
        In the following, ``item`` and ``value`` are usually a single bit -
        an integer 0 or 1.
        
        
        The bitarray object:
        --------------------
        
        ``bitarray(initializer=0, /, endian='big')`` -> bitarray
           Return a new bitarray object whose items are bits initialized from
           the optional initial object, and endianness.
           The initializer may be of the following types:
        
           ``int``: Create a bitarray of given integer length.  The initial values are
           uninitialized.
        
           ``str``: Create bitarray from a string of ``0`` and ``1``.
        
           ``iterable``: Create bitarray from iterable or sequence or integers 0 or 1.
        
           The optional keyword arguments ``endian`` specifies the bit endianness of the
           created bitarray object.
           Allowed values are the strings ``big`` and ``little`` (default is ``big``).
           The bit endianness only effects the when buffer representation of the
           bitarray.
        
        
        **A bitarray object supports the following methods:**
        
        ``all()`` -> bool
           Return True when all bits in the array are True.
           Note that ``a.all()`` is faster than ``all(a)``.
        
        
        ``any()`` -> bool
           Return True when any bit in the array is True.
           Note that ``a.any()`` is faster than ``any(a)``.
        
        
        ``append(item, /)``
           Append ``item`` to the end of the bitarray.
        
        
        ``buffer_info()`` -> tuple
           Return a tuple (address, size, endianness, unused, allocated) giving the
           memory address of the bitarray's buffer, the buffer size (in bytes),
           the bit endianness as a string, the number of unused bits within the last
           byte, and the allocated memory for the buffer (in bytes).
        
        
        ``bytereverse()``
           For all bytes representing the bitarray, reverse the bit order (in-place).
           Note: This method changes the actual machine values representing the
           bitarray; it does *not* change the endianness of the bitarray object.
        
        
        ``clear()``
           Remove all items from the bitarray.
        
        
        ``copy()`` -> bitarray
           Return a copy of the bitarray.
        
        
        ``count(value=1, start=0, stop=<end of array>, /)`` -> int
           Count the number of occurrences of ``value`` in the bitarray.
        
        
        ``decode(code, /)`` -> list
           Given a prefix code (a dict mapping symbols to bitarrays, or ``decodetree``
           object), decode the content of the bitarray and return it as a list of
           symbols.
        
        
        ``encode(code, iterable, /)``
           Given a prefix code (a dict mapping symbols to bitarrays),
           iterate over the iterable object with symbols, and extend the bitarray
           with the corresponding bitarray for each symbol.
        
        
        ``endian()`` -> str
           Return the bit endianness of the bitarray as a string (``little`` or ``big``).
        
        
        ``extend(iterable, /)``
           Append all the items from ``iterable`` to the end of the bitarray.
           If the iterable is a string, each ``0`` and ``1`` are appended as
           bits (ignoring whitespace).
        
        
        ``fill()`` -> int
           Add zeros to the end of the bitarray, such that the length of the bitarray
           will be a multiple of 8, and return the number of bits added (0..7).
        
        
        ``find(sub_bitarray, start=0, stop=<end of array>, /)`` -> int
           Return the lowest index where sub_bitarray is found, such that sub_bitarray
           is contained within ``[start:stop]``.
           Return -1 when sub_bitarray is not found.
        
        
        ``frombytes(bytes, /)``
           Extend bitarray with raw bytes.  That is, each append byte will add eight
           bits to the bitarray.
        
        
        ``fromfile(f, n=-1, /)``
           Extend bitarray with up to n bytes read from the file object f.
           When n is omitted or negative, reads all data until EOF.
           When n is provided and positive but exceeds the data available,
           ``EOFError`` is raised (but the available data is still read and appended.
        
        
        ``index(sub_bitarray, start=0, stop=<end of array>, /)`` -> int
           Return the lowest index where sub_bitarray is found, such that sub_bitarray
           is contained within ``[start:stop]``.
           Raises ``ValueError`` when the sub_bitarray is not present.
        
        
        ``insert(index, value, /)``
           Insert ``value`` into the bitarray before ``index``.
        
        
        ``invert(index=<all bits>, /)``
           Invert all bits in the array (in-place).
           When the optional ``index`` is given, only invert the single bit at index.
        
        
        ``iterdecode(code, /)`` -> iterator
           Given a prefix code (a dict mapping symbols to bitarrays, or ``decodetree``
           object), decode the content of the bitarray and return an iterator over
           the symbols.
        
        
        ``itersearch(sub_bitarray, /)`` -> iterator
           Searches for the given sub_bitarray in self, and return an iterator over
           the start positions where bitarray matches self.
        
        
        ``pack(bytes, /)``
           Extend the bitarray from bytes, where each byte corresponds to a single
           bit.  The byte ``b'\x00'`` maps to bit 0 and all other characters map to
           bit 1.
           This method, as well as the unpack method, are meant for efficient
           transfer of data between bitarray objects to other python objects
           (for example NumPy's ndarray object) which have a different memory view.
        
        
        ``pop(index=-1, /)`` -> item
           Return the i-th (default last) element and delete it from the bitarray.
           Raises ``IndexError`` if bitarray is empty or index is out of range.
        
        
        ``remove(value, /)``
           Remove the first occurrence of ``value`` in the bitarray.
           Raises ``ValueError`` if item is not present.
        
        
        ``reverse()``
           Reverse the order of bits in the array (in-place).
        
        
        ``search(sub_bitarray, limit=<none>, /)`` -> list
           Searches for the given sub_bitarray in self, and return the list of start
           positions.
           The optional argument limits the number of search results to the integer
           specified.  By default, all search results are returned.
        
        
        ``setall(value, /)``
           Set all elements in the bitarray to ``value``.
           Note that ``a.setall(value)`` is equivalent to ``a[:] = value``.
        
        
        ``sort(reverse=False)``
           Sort the bits in the array (in-place).
        
        
        ``to01()`` -> str
           Return a string containing '0's and '1's, representing the bits in the
           bitarray object.
        
        
        ``tobytes()`` -> bytes
           Return the byte representation of the bitarray.
           When the length of the bitarray is not a multiple of 8, the few remaining
           bits are considered 0.
        
        
        ``tofile(f, /)``
           Write the byte representation of the bitarray to the file object f.
           When the length of the bitarray is not a multiple of 8, the few remaining
           bits are considered 0.
        
        
        ``tolist()`` -> list
           Return a list with the items (0 or 1) in the bitarray.
           Note that the list object being created will require 32 or 64 times more
           memory (depending on the machine architecture) than the bitarray object,
           which may cause a memory error if the bitarray is very large.
        
        
        ``unpack(zero=b'\x00', one=b'\x01')`` -> bytes
           Return bytes containing one character for each bit in the bitarray,
           using the specified mapping.
        
        
        Other objects:
        --------------
        
        ``frozenbitarray(initializer=0, /, endian='big')`` -> frozenbitarray
           Return a frozenbitarray object, which is initialized the same way a bitarray
           object is initialized.  A frozenbitarray is immutable and hashable.
           Its contents cannot be altered after it is created; however, it can be used
           as a dictionary key.
        
        
        ``decodetree(code, /)`` -> decodetree
           Given a prefix code (a dict mapping symbols to bitarrays),
           create a binary tree object to be passed to ``.decode()`` or ``.iterdecode()``.
        
        
        Functions defined in the `bitarray` module:
        -------------------------------------------
        
        ``bits2bytes(n, /)`` -> int
           Return the number of bytes necessary to store n bits.
        
        
        ``get_default_endian()`` -> string
           Return the default endianness for new bitarray objects being created.
           Unless ``_set_default_endian()`` is called, the return value is ``big``.
        
        
        ``test(verbosity=1, repeat=1)`` -> TextTestResult
           Run self-test, and return unittest.runner.TextTestResult object.
        
        
        Functions defined in `bitarray.util` module:
        --------------------------------------------
        
        ``zeros(length, /, endian=None)`` -> bitarray
           Create a bitarray of length, with all values 0, and optional
           endianness, which may be 'big', 'little'.
        
        
        ``urandom(length, /, endian=None)`` -> bitarray
           Return a bitarray of ``length`` random bits (uses ``os.urandom``).
        
        
        ``pprint(bitarray, /, stream=None, group=8, indent=4, width=80)``
           Prints the formatted representation of object on ``stream``, followed by a
           newline.  If ``stream`` is ``None``, ``sys.stdout`` is used.  By default, elements
           are grouped in bytes (8 elements), and 8 bytes (64 elements) per line.
           Non-bitarray objects are printed by the standard library
           function ``pprint.pprint()``.
        
        
        ``make_endian(bitarray, endian, /)`` -> bitarray
           When the endianness of the given bitarray is different from ``endian``,
           return a new bitarray, with endianness ``endian`` and the same elements
           as the original bitarray.
           Otherwise (endianness is already ``endian``) the original bitarray is returned
           unchanged.
        
        
        ``rindex(bitarray, value=1, /)`` -> int
           Return the rightmost index of ``value`` in bitarray.
           Raises ``ValueError`` if the value is not present.
        
        
        ``strip(bitarray, mode='right', /)`` -> bitarray
           Return a new bitarray with zeros stripped from left, right or both ends.
           Allowed values for mode are the strings: ``left``, ``right``, ``both``
        
        
        ``count_n(a, n, /)`` -> int
           Return lowest index ``i`` for which ``a[:i].count() == n``.
           Raises ``ValueError``, when n exceeds total count (``a.count()``).
        
        
        ``parity(a, /)`` -> int
           Return the parity of bitarray ``a``.
           This is equivalent to ``a.count() % 2`` (but more efficient).
        
        
        ``count_and(a, b, /)`` -> int
           Return ``(a & b).count()`` in a memory efficient manner,
           as no intermediate bitarray object gets created.
        
        
        ``count_or(a, b, /)`` -> int
           Return ``(a | b).count()`` in a memory efficient manner,
           as no intermediate bitarray object gets created.
        
        
        ``count_xor(a, b, /)`` -> int
           Return ``(a ^ b).count()`` in a memory efficient manner,
           as no intermediate bitarray object gets created.
        
        
        ``subset(a, b, /)`` -> bool
           Return ``True`` if bitarray ``a`` is a subset of bitarray ``b``.
           ``subset(a, b)`` is equivalent to ``(a & b).count() == a.count()`` but is more
           efficient since we can stop as soon as one mismatch is found, and no
           intermediate bitarray object gets created.
        
        
        ``ba2hex(bitarray, /)`` -> hexstr
           Return a string containing the hexadecimal representation of
           the bitarray (which has to be multiple of 4 in length).
        
        
        ``hex2ba(hexstr, /, endian=None)`` -> bitarray
           Bitarray of hexadecimal representation.  hexstr may contain any number
           (including odd numbers) of hex digits (upper or lower case).
        
        
        ``ba2base(n, bitarray, /)`` -> str
           Return a string containing the base ``n`` ASCII representation of
           the bitarray.  Allowed values for ``n`` are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64.
           The bitarray has to be multiple of length 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 respectively.
           For ``n=16`` (hexadecimal), ``ba2hex()`` will be much faster, as ``ba2base()``
           does not take advantage of byte level operations.
           For ``n=32`` the RFC 4648 Base32 alphabet is used, and for ``n=64`` the
           standard base 64 alphabet is used.
        
        
        ``base2ba(n, asciistr, /, endian=None)`` -> bitarray
           Bitarray of the base ``n`` ASCII representation.
           Allowed values for ``n`` are 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32.
           For ``n=16`` (hexadecimal), ``hex2ba()`` will be much faster, as ``base2ba()``
           does not take advantage of byte level operations.
           For ``n=32`` the RFC 4648 Base32 alphabet is used, and for ``n=64`` the
           standard base 64 alphabet is used.
        
        
        ``ba2int(bitarray, /, signed=False)`` -> int
           Convert the given bitarray into an integer.
           The bit-endianness of the bitarray is respected.
           ``signed`` indicates whether two's complement is used to represent the integer.
        
        
        ``int2ba(int, /, length=None, endian=None, signed=False)`` -> bitarray
           Convert the given integer to a bitarray (with given endianness,
           and no leading (big-endian) / trailing (little-endian) zeros), unless
           the ``length`` of the bitarray is provided.  An ``OverflowError`` is raised
           if the integer is not representable with the given number of bits.
           ``signed`` determines whether two's complement is used to represent the integer,
           and requires ``length`` to be provided.
        
        
        ``serialize(bitarray, /)`` -> bytes
           Return a serialized representation of the bitarray, which may be passed to
           ``deserialize()``.  It efficiently represents the bitarray object (including
           its endianness) and is guaranteed not to change in future releases.
        
        
        ``deserialize(bytes, /)`` -> bitarray
           Return a bitarray given the bytes representation returned by ``serialize()``.
        
        
        ``huffman_code(dict, /, endian=None)`` -> dict
           Given a frequency map, a dictionary mapping symbols to their frequency,
           calculate the Huffman code, i.e. a dict mapping those symbols to
           bitarrays (with given endianness).  Note that the symbols are not limited
           to being strings.  Symbols may may be any hashable object (such as ``None``).
        
        
        
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Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License
Classifier: Development Status :: 6 - Mature
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
