Pyrlang Term Library

Term is a Python 3.5 library which supports Erlang Term encoding, decoding and representation as Python values. There are identical implementations of codec in Python and in Rust, if your machine doesn't have Rust compiler installed, the slower Python implementation will be used automatically.

This library has no dependencies on other parts of Pyrlang project and can be used standalone.

Important APIs are:

from term import codec, Atom
t = codec.term_to_binary((1, Atom('ok')))
# Function term_to_binary will prepend a 131 byte tag
# Function term_to_binary_2 encodes without a leading 131 byte

(val, tail) = codec.binary_to_term(bytes)
# Returns a pair: value and remaining bytes
# Function binary_to_term strips leading 131 byte and also handles
# decompression of an eventually compressed term
# Function binary_to_term_2 decodes without a leading 131 byte

Contents

• Data Types in Pyrlang
  • Decoding
  • Encoding
  • Lists
  • Binaries
• term.atom module
• term.bitstring module
• term.erl_typing helper module
• term.fun module
• term.list module
• term.pid module
• term.py_codec_impl module
• term.reference module