Huffman Decoding

Decompress your Huffman-encoded data to obtain your initial data

Yağmur Çiğdem Aktaş
Towards Data Science
2 min readAug 12, 2021

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We already saw how to encode a given data using Huffman Encoding in Huffman Encoding & Python Implementation post. Now we will examine how to decode a Huffman Encoded data to obtain the initial, uncompressed data again.

Having our Binary Huffman Tree obtained during encode phase, decoding is a very simple process to perform.

Let’s consider we have the same example with Huffman Encoding post, therefore we have AAAAAAABCCCCCCDDEEEEE as our…

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