capnpy documentation

capnpy is an implementation of Cap’n Proto for Python. Its primary goal is to provide a library which is fast, both on CPython and PyPy, and which offers a pythonic API and feeling whenever possible.

• Usage
  • Installation and requirements
  • Quick example
  • Compiling schemas
    • Integration with setuptools
    • Manual compilation
    • Dynamic loading
    • Compilation options
    • Options annotation
  • Loading and dumping messages
  • Loading from sockets
  • Raw dumps
  • capnproto types
    • Text
    • Struct
    • Enum
    • Union
    • Groups
    • Virtual groups
    • Named unions
  • “Compact” structs
    • List items
    • The compact() method
  • Equality and hashing
    • Rationale
  • Extending capnpy structs
  • Reflection API
    • Nodes vs Python entities
    • Inspecting annotations
  • capnpy vs pycapnp
• Changelog
  • 0.8.1
  • 0.8.0
  • 0.7.0
  • 0.6.4
  • 0.6.3
  • 0.6.2
  • 0.6.1
  • 0.6
• Benchmarks
  • How to read the charts
  • Get Attribute
  • Special union attributes
  • Lists
  • Hashing
  • Constructors
  • Deep copy
  • Loading messages
  • Buffered streams
  • Dumping messages
  • Evolution over time