PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library
Zstandard is a widely adopted, mature, and highly efficient compression standard. This PEP proposes adding a new module to the Python standard library containing a Python wrapper around Meta’s zstd library, the default implementation. Additionally, to avoid name collisions with packages on PyPI and to present a unified interface to Python users, compression modules in the standard library will be moved under a compression.* namespace package. ⌘ Read more