Python Bindings (zarrs-python)
The zarrs(https://github.com/ilan-gold/zarrs-python) Python package exposes a high-performance codec pipeline to the zarr reference implementation that uses zarrs under the hood.
There is no need to learn a new API and it is supported by downstream libraries like dask.
zarrs-python implements the ZarrsCodecPipeline.
It can be used by the reference zarr Python implementation (v3.0.0+) for improved performance over the default BatchedCodecPipeline.
warning
zarrs-python is highly experimental and has some limitations compared to the reference implementation.
Enabling zarrs-python
The ZarrsCodecPipeline is enabled as follows:
from zarr import config
import zarrs # noqa: F401
config.set({"codec_pipeline.path": "zarrs.ZarrsCodecPipeline"})
tip
The zarrs-python bindings are located in a repository called zarrs-python, but the Python package is called zarrs.
Downstream libraries that use zarr internally (dask, xarray, etc.) will also use the ZarrsCodecPipeline.