The Python API naming has been overhauled and a few functions have been deprecated. Also the documentation for the Python API has been extended to inlcude more uses cases and potential applications.
A big thank you goes out to Daniel Stender from the Debian project for his continued efforts to package the Blosc stack -- including python-blosc -- for Debian. This also means it is likely that a recent version of bloscpack will be included in Buster.
For more info, have a look at the changelog:
https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack#changelog
Documentation and examples are available at:
https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack
Bloscpack is a command-line interface and serialization format for Blosc. Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is an extremely fast meta-codec designed for high compression speeds. Bloscpack allows you to use Blosc from the command-line to compress and decompress files. Additionally, Bloscpack has a Python-API that allows you to compress and serialize data to a file system. Additionally, Bloscpack supports efficient serialization and de-serialization of Numpy arrays and might in fact be one of the fastest ways to save arrays to disk. Bloscpack uses the Python bindings for Blosc (http://python-blosc.blosc.org/) under the hood.
Enjoy data!