varint¶
Varint encoder/decoder
Implementation of a variable-length integer encoding scheme.
- Based on implementation by Peter Ruibal:
- https://github.com/fmoo/python-varint
It’s copied here so we can use it stably without adding a dependency.
License: Since this is copied from someone else’s code, its license is that of the original code, the MIT license. See LICENSE below for details.
Varints are a common encoding for variable-length integer data, used in libraries such as sqlite, protobuf, v8, and more.
Here’s a quick and dirty module to help avoid reimplementing the same thing over and over again.