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 v1.5.6 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+
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ZstdFile
class has C language level performance - Supports Zstandard Seekable Format
- Has a command line interface:
python -m pyzstd --help