pyzstd

Python bindings to Zstandard (zstd) compression library

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Pyzstd module provides classes and functions for compressing and decompressing data, using Facebook's Zstandard (or zstd as short name) algorithm.

The API style is similar to Python's bz2/lzma/zlib modules.

• Includes zstd v1.5.5 source code
• Can also dynamically link to zstd library provided by system, see this note.
• Has a CFFI implementation that can work with PyPy
• Support sub-interpreter on CPython 3.12+
• ZstdFile class has C language level performance
• Supports Zstandard Seekable Format
• Has a command line interface: python -m pyzstd --help