MARISA Trie

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Static memory-efficient Trie-like structures for Python (3.9+) based on marisa-trie_ C++ library.

String data in a MARISA-trie may take up to 50x-100x less memory than in a standard Python dict; the raw lookup speed is comparable; trie also provides fast advanced methods like prefix search.

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There are official SWIG-based Python bindings included
in C++ library distribution; this package provides alternative
Cython-based pip-installable Python bindings.

.. _marisa-trie: https://github.com/s-yata/marisa-trie

Installation

::

python -m pip install -U marisa-trie

Usage

See tutorial_ and API_ for details.

For immutable str -> str mappings, use marisa_trie.StringTrie (implemented as two internal tries plus a compact ID mapping table).

.. _tutorial: https://marisa-trie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html .. _API: https://marisa-trie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

Current limitations

  • The library is not tested with mingw32 compiler;
  • .prefixes() method of BytesTrie and RecordTrie is quite slow and doesn't have iterator counterpart;
  • read() and write() methods don't work with file-like objects (they work only with real files; pickling works fine for file-like objects);
  • Trie, BytesTrie and RecordTrie provide keys() and items() methods but no values() method.

License

Wrapper code is licensed under MIT License.

Bundled marisa-trie_ C++ library is dual-licensed under LGPL or BSD 2-clause license.

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