bloomfaster: fast bloomfilter

Author:	Brent Pedersen (brentp)
Email:	[email protected]
License:	MIT

Implementation

Simple cython wrapper to the C-code from Bloom::Faster perl module. It's called 'Elf' because 'ELF' is an early flowering mutant in Arabidopsis. So Bloom Fast => Early Flowering => Elf.

It is tune-able for the number of false positives.

Usage

>>> from bloomfaster import Elf

>>> expected_size = 1000
>>> e = Elf(expected_size, error_rate=1e-10)
>>> e.add("ASDF")
>>> "ASDF" in e
True

>>> e.update(("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"))
>>> "B" in e
True

serialization:

>>> e.save("some.elf")
>>> f = Elf.load("some.elf")

>>> "ASDF" in f
True
>>> "AA" in f
False

Tests

$ python setup.py test

or with nose:

$ nosetests --with-doctest --doctest-extension="pyx" --doctest-extension="rst"