This module implements a PackBits encoder/decoder for Python 2.x and 3.x.

PackBits encoding is used in PSD and TIFF files.

pip install packbits

Import packbits module; then use packbits.encode(data) and packbits.decode(data) functions.

Development happens at github and bitbucket:

• https://github.com/kmike/packbits
• https://bitbucket.org/kmike/packbits

The main issue tracker is at github: https://github.com/kmike/packbits/issues

Feel free to submit ideas, bugs, pull requests (git or hg) or regular patches.

In order to run tests, install tox and type

tox

from the source checkout.

The license is MIT.