/pyzstd

Python bindings to Zstandard (zstd) compression library, the API style is similar to Python's bz2/lzma/zlib modules.

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pyzstd

Python bindings to Zstandard (zstd) compression library

GitHub build status Release on PyPI BSD-3-Clause License

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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 v1.5.6 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