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                                -=} Entropy {=-
                            Fast entropy calculation


This library provides a method implemented in C for calculating the shannon
entropy[1] of a bytestring.

usage:

    import entropy
    entropy.shannon_entropy('data')


AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS:

Martin Natano <natano@natano.net>

Please follow PEP 8[2] when submitting patches/pull requests.


[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shannon_entropy
[2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/