horse-in-aisle-five

Novel file 'compression' method from XKCD's "What If?" series. Original here: http://what-if.xkcd.com/34/.

How it works

Zeros get encoded into the string "There's a horse in aisle five.". Ones get encoded into the string "My house is full of traps.". Simple.

Dependencies

• bitarray
• bitstring

Running

Encode a file python horse_encode.py [filename] The encoded file will be named filename.horse.

Decode a file python horse_decode.py [filename] The decoded file will be named filename.unhorse.