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id: flatbuffers
version: "25.12.19"
license: Apache 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# flatbuffers — The FlatBuffers serialization format for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install flatbuffers
uv add flatbuffers
poetry add flatbuffers

## Description

![logo](https://flatbuffers.dev/assets/flatbuffers_logo.svg) FlatBuffers
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**FlatBuffers** is a cross platform serialization library architected for
maximum memory efficiency. It allows you to directly access serialized data without parsing/unpacking it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.

## Quick Start

1. Build the compiler for flatbuffers (`flatc`)

    Use `cmake` to create the...

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