zysilence/python-hyperscan

A CPython extension for the Hyperscan regular expression matching library.

Hyperscan for Python

A CPython extension for Hyperscan, Intel's open source, high-performance multiple regex matching library. Currently only supports manylinux-compatible Linux distributions.

Installation

$ pip install hyperscan

API Support

python-hyperscan currently exposes most of the C API, with the following caveats or exceptions:

• No Chimera support yet.
• No stream compression support.
• No custom allocator support.
• hs_expression_info, hs_expression_ext_info, hs_populate_platform, and hs_serialized_database_info not exposed yet.

python-hyperscan requires Hyperscan v5.2 or newer.

Resources

• PyPI Project
• Documentation
• Hyperscan C API Documentation