title: error with snappy while importing fastparquet in python
body: <p>I have installed installed the following modules in my EC2 server which already has python (3.6) &amp; anaconda installed :</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>snappy</li>
  <li>pyarrow </li>
  <li>s3fs</li>
  <li>fastparquet</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>except fastparquet  everything else works on importing. When I try to import fastparquet it throws the following error : </p>
  
  <pre><code>[username@ip8 ~]$ conda -V
  conda 4.2.13
  [username@ip-~]$ python
      Python 3.6.0 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Dec 23 2016, 12:22:00)
      [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
      Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
       import fastparquet
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
        File "/home/username/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastparquet/__init__.py", line 15, in &lt;module&gt;
          from .core import read_thrift
        File "/home/username/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastparquet/core.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
          from .compression import decompress_data
        File "/home/username/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastparquet/compression.py", line 43, in &lt;module&gt;
          compressions['SNAPPY'] = snappy.compress
      AttributeError: module 'snappy' has no attribute 'compress'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I go about fixing this ?</p>