# Copyright (c) 2017-present, Gregory Szorc # All rights reserved. # # This software may be modified and distributed under the terms # of the BSD license. See the LICENSE file for details. """Python interface to the Zstandard (zstd) compression library.""" from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals # This module serves 2 roles: # # 1) Export the C or CFFI "backend" through a central module. # 2) Implement additional functionality built on top of C or CFFI backend. import os import platform # Some Python implementations don't support C extensions. That's why we have # a CFFI implementation in the first place. The code here import one of our # "backends" then re-exports the symbols from this module. For convenience, # we support falling back to the CFFI backend if the C extension can't be # imported. But for performance reasons, we only do this on unknown Python # implementation. Notably, for CPython we require the C extension by default. # Because someone will inevitably want special behavior, the behavior is # configurable via an environment variable. A potentially better way to handle # this is to import a special ``__importpolicy__`` module or something # defining a variable and `setup.py` could write the file with whatever # policy was specified at build time. Until someone needs it, we go with # the hacky but simple environment variable approach. _module_policy = os.environ.get('PYTHON_ZSTANDARD_IMPORT_POLICY', 'default') if _module_policy == 'default': if platform.python_implementation() in ('CPython',): from zstd import * backend = 'cext' elif platform.python_implementation() in ('PyPy',): from .cffi import * backend = 'cffi' else: try: from zstd import * backend = 'cext' except ImportError: from .cffi import * backend = 'cffi' elif _module_policy == 'cffi_fallback': try: from zstd import * backend = 'cext' except ImportError: from .cffi import * backend = 'cffi' elif _module_policy == 'cext': from zstd import * backend = 'cext' elif _module_policy == 'cffi': from .cffi import * backend = 'cffi' else: raise ImportError('unknown module import policy: %s; use default, cffi_fallback, ' 'cext, or cffi' % _module_policy) # Keep this in sync with python-zstandard.h. __version__ = '0.12.0'