pymtbl: Python bindings for the mtbl sorted string table library

pymtbl provides a simple Pythonic wrapper for mtbl's reader, writer, sorter, and merger interfaces. The examples/ directory contains scripts demonstrating each of these interfaces. The following transcript shows the basic reader and writer interfaces:

>>> import mtbl
>>> w = mtbl.writer('example.mtbl', compression=mtbl.COMPRESSION_SNAPPY)
>>> w['key1'] = 'val1'
>>> w['key17'] = 'val17'
>>> w['key2'] = 'val2'
>>> w['key23'] = 'val23'
>>> w['key3'] = 'val3'
>>> w['key4'] = 'val4'
>>> w['key05'] = 'val05'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "mtbl.pyx", line 361, in mtbl.writer.__setitem__ (mtbl.c:4108)
mtbl.KeyOrderError
>>> w.close()
>>> r = mtbl.reader('example.mtbl', verify_checksums=True)
>>> for k,v in r.get_range('key19', 'key23'): print k,v
... 
key2 val2
key23 val23
>>> for k,v in r.get_prefix('key2'): print k,v
... 
key2 val2
key23 val23
>>> for k,v in r.iteritems(): print k, v
... 
key1 val1
key17 val17
key2 val2
key23 val23
key3 val3
key4 val4
>>>