""" One of the several implementations of Lempel-Ziv-Welch decompression algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch """ import math import sys def read_file_binary(file_path: str) -> str: """ Reads given file as bytes and returns them as a long string """ result = "" try: with open(file_path, "rb") as binary_file: data = binary_file.read() for dat in data: curr_byte = f"{dat:08b}" result += curr_byte return result except OSError: print("File not accessible") sys.exit() def decompress_data(data_bits: str) -> str: """ Decompresses given data_bits using Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression algorithm and returns the result as a string """ lexicon = {"0": "0", "1": "1"} result, curr_string = "", "" index = len(lexicon) for i in range(len(data_bits)): curr_string += data_bits[i] if curr_string not in lexicon: continue last_match_id = lexicon[curr_string] result += last_match_id lexicon[curr_string] = last_match_id + "0" if math.log2(index).is_integer(): new_lex = {} for curr_key in list(lexicon): new_lex["0" + curr_key] = lexicon.pop(curr_key) lexicon = new_lex lexicon[bin(index)[2:]] = last_match_id + "1" index += 1 curr_string = "" return result def write_file_binary(file_path: str, to_write: str) -> None: """ Writes given to_write string (should only consist of 0's and 1's) as bytes in the file """ byte_length = 8 try: with open(file_path, "wb") as opened_file: result_byte_array = [ to_write[i : i + byte_length] for i in range(0, len(to_write), byte_length) ] if len(result_byte_array[-1]) % byte_length == 0: result_byte_array.append("10000000") else: result_byte_array[-1] += "1" + "0" * ( byte_length - len(result_byte_array[-1]) - 1 ) for elem in result_byte_array[:-1]: opened_file.write(int(elem, 2).to_bytes(1, byteorder="big")) except OSError: print("File not accessible") sys.exit() def remove_prefix(data_bits: str) -> str: """ Removes size prefix, that compressed file should have Returns the result """ counter = 0 for letter in data_bits: if letter == "1": break counter += 1 data_bits = data_bits[counter:] data_bits = data_bits[counter + 1 :] return data_bits def compress(source_path: str, destination_path: str) -> None: """ Reads source file, decompresses it and writes the result in destination file """ data_bits = read_file_binary(source_path) data_bits = remove_prefix(data_bits) decompressed = decompress_data(data_bits) write_file_binary(destination_path, decompressed) if __name__ == "__main__": compress(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])