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, default False

Return result as Python bytes object, otherwise Buffer.

memory_poolMemoryPool, default None

Memory pool to use for buffer allocations, if any.

Returns:

compressedpyarrow.Buffer or bytes (if asbytes=True)