Hyperscan for Python

A CPython extension for Hyperscan, Intel's open source, high-performance multiple regex matching library. Currently only supports manylinux-compatible Linux distributions.

• ✅ Binary wheels with support for Linux and macOS x86_64 (ARM64 and win32 support is planned)
• ✅ Statically linked (no need to build Hyperscan)
• ✅ Chimera support

Installation

# 🪄 Installing libhs is NOT required, because python-hyperscan is statically linked
pip install hyperscan

API Support

python-hyperscan currently exposes most of the C API, with the following caveats or exceptions:

• No stream compression support.
• No custom allocator support.
• hs_expression_info, hs_expression_ext_info, hs_populate_platform, and hs_serialized_database_info not exposed yet.

See the documentation for more detailed build instructions.

Resources

• PyPI Project
• Documentation
• Hyperscan C API Documentation