A CPython extension for Vectorscan, an open source fork of Hyperscan, Intel's open source (prior to version 5.4), high-performance multiple regex matching library.

• ✅ Binary manylinux-compatible wheels
• ✅ Statically linked (no need to build Hyperscan/Vectorscan)
• ✅ Chimera support

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

If you'd like to use Intel's Hyperscan rather than Vectorscan, or if you'd like to enable native CPU detection to build optimized non-FAT libraries (default off in Vectorscan), extending the manylinux-hyperscan Docker image used to build the binary wheels for this library should be fairly straightforward.

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.

• PyPI Project
• Documentation
• Hyperscan C API Documentation