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README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # huffman-py
 
-Teeworlds huffman compression ported to python. Work in progress.
+Teeworlds huffman compression ported to python.
 
 This is not a general purpose compression library. It uses the teeworlds frequency table
 and is intended to be used for teeworlds networking.
@@ -11,8 +11,17 @@ and is intended to be used for teeworlds networking.
 from huffman import Huffman
 
 huffman = Huffman()
-decompressed = huffman.decompress(bytes([174, 149, 19, 92, 9, 87, 194, 22, 177, 86, 220, 218, 34, 56, 185, 18, 156, 168, 184, 1]))
-print(decompressed) # => b'hello world'
+decompressed = huffman.decompress(bytes([
+    174, 149, 19, 92, 9, 87, 194,
+    22, 177, 86, 220, 218, 34, 56,
+    185, 18, 156, 168, 184, 1
+]))
+print(decompressed)
+# => b'hello world'
+
+compressed = huffman.compress(b'hello world')
+print(compressed)
+# => b'\xae\x95\x13\\\tW\xc2\x16\xb1V\xdc\xda"8\xb9\x12\x9c\xa8\xb8\x01'
 ```
 
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huffman.py

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def compress(self, data: bytes) -> bytes:
             bits >>= 8
             bitcount -= 8
         dst.append(bits)
-        return dst
+        return bytes(dst)
 
     def decompress(self, data: bytes) -> bytes:
         """