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Example Mismatch

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the Python compression example and the python -m snappy -d compressed_file.snappy uncompressed_file entry point, reproducing the reported UncompressError: chunk truncated. Determine whether the command-line tool should support this output or whether a second programmatic example is needed; done means the chosen path works consistently and is documented.

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Description

Python example to compress a string with snappy can't be decompressed with the command line tool example to decompress a file with the same string in it. The command line tool should be expanded to support this use case, or at the very least a second programmatic example explaining how to create a file which can be read with the tool.

import snappy
import os
fout = open('compressed_file.snappy', 'w')
buf ='hello world'
buf = snappy.compress(buf)
fout.write(buf)
fout.close()
os.system("python -m snappy -d compressed_file.snappy uncompressed_file");

UncompressError: chunk truncated

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