Hi!
After spending a number of weekends on the reference implementation, I have finally had time to write up a PEP about adding support for Zstandard compression to the standard library.
Abstract
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.
The fully rendered PEP can be read here.
While this PEP currently targets implementation in 3.14, if the window between acceptance and the beta cutoff is too close, the PEP implementation can be pushed out to 3.15.
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