Binary package “python-snappy” in ubuntu bionic

snappy compression library from Google - Python 2.7

 Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for
 maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression
 library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable
 compression. You can read package libsnappy1 for more information.
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 This package provides the Python 2.7 module.