intbitset is on PyPI so all you need is a C compiler and pip: :

pip install intbitset

The intbitset library provides a set implementation to store sorted unsigned integers either 32-bits integers (between 0 and 2**31 - 1 or intbitset.__maxelem__) or an infinite range with fast set operations implemented via bit vectors in a Python C extension for speed and reduced memory usage.

The inbitset class emulates the Python built-in set class interface with some additional specific methods such as its own fast dump and load marshalling functions. :

>>> from intbitset import intbitset
>>> x = intbitset([1,2,3])
>>> y = intbitset([3,4,5])
>>> x & y
intbitset([3])
>>> x | y
intbitset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

intbitset additionally support the pickle protocol, the iterator protocol and can behave like a sequence that can be sliced. Because the intergers are always stored sorted, the fist element of a non-empty set [0] is also the min() integer and the last element [-1] is also the max() integer in the set.

When compared to the standard library set class, intbitset set operations such as intersection, union and difference can be up to 5000 faster for dense integer sets.

Complete documentation is available at <http://intbitset.readthedocs.io> or can be built using Sphinx: :

pip install Sphinx
python setup.py build_sphinx

Running the tests are as simple as: :

python setup.py test

Running the tests on multiple Python versions: :

pip install tox
tox

To regenerate the C code with Cython: :

pip install cython
cython intbitset/intbitset.pyx

Then commit the regenarted C source and update the CHANGE.rst

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