I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server
sudo pip install python-snappy
also I tried to downloaded package and entered \"sudo python set
If you are on Mac OS X Catalina, you can install with
brew install snappy CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -stdlib=libc++ " pip install python-snappy
as suggested by https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy FAQ