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A way to specify offset/length when compressing and uncompressing

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

The issue body is the available starting point; inspect the Python bindings and their compression and decompression entry points to understand the current data-copy behavior. Define offset and length semantics for both operations, then add coverage showing that a view can be processed without creating a full copy.

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Description

If I want to compress or uncompress only a view of my string/data, I don't see a way to do that without creating a copy. Do you think this can be added.

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