backports.zstd

Backport of PEP-784 “adding Zstandard to the standard library”

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📖 PEP-784   |   📃 Changelog

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⚠️ Work in progress

Not all features nor Python versions are supported at this time.

See the 🎯 Roadmap for more details on the status of this project.

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Install

Add the following dependency to your project:

backports.zstd ; python_version<'3.14'

Usage

Use the following conditional import:

import sys

if sys.version_info < (3, 14):
    from backports import zstd
else:
    from compression import zstd

Refer to the official Python documentation for usage of the module.