"""
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():
newLex = {}
for curr_key in list(lexicon):
newLex["0" + curr_key] = lexicon.pop(curr_key)
lexicon = newLex
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])