readme.md

encoders

• fast LabelEncoder for str and bytes to int

Install

pip install encoders

Dev

• py -m pip install -e .[test,bench]
• use py -m pre_commit run --all-files to run pre-commit checks manually
• cd tests && py -m unittest discover to run tests, py bench.py to run benchmarks

benchmarks

bytes

class	fit	fit(set)	inverse_transform	transform
BytesLabelEncoder	4.40007	0.404088	0.656	2.7153
PandasLabelEncoder	5.95293	0.558918	0.337004	3.31889
SklearnLabelEncoder	4.44269	0.448736	0.874752	7.73648

string

class	fit	fit(set)	inverse_transform	transform
StringLabelEncoder	1.91807	0.286374	0.152906	0.597774
PandasLabelEncoder	2.36687	0.416667	0.318656	3.34337
SklearnLabelEncoder	5.9505	0.380508	0.939498	19.2761

Plans

• fast Counter, MultiCounter for str and bytes