Compressed Rich Text Format (RTF) compression worker in Python
Compressed RTF also known as "LZFu" compression format
Based on Rich Text Format (RTF) Compression Algorithm:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc463890(v=exchg.80).aspx
>>> from compressed_rtf import compress, decompress
>>>
>>> data = '{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\pard test}'
>>> comp = compress(data, compressed=True) # compressed
>>> comp
'#\x00\x00\x00"\x00\x00\x00LZFu3\\\xe8t\x03\x00\n\x00rcpg125\x922\n\xf3 t\x07\x90t}\x0f\x10'
>>>
>>> raw = compress(data, compressed=False) # raw/uncompressed
>>> raw
'.\x00\x00\x00"\x00\x00\x00MELA \xdf\x12\xce{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\pard test}'
>>>
>>> decompress(comp)
'{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\pard test}'
>>>
>>> decompress(raw)
'{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\pard test}'
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