Hugo van Kemenade<p>Brand new PEP by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@emmatyping" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emmatyping</span></a></span> to add Zstandard to the standard library: <br><a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0784/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">peps.python.org/pep-0784/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Will it make it in to 3.14 before the feature freeze on 2025-05-06? It'll be close but it's possible!</p><p>The PEP also suggests namespacing the other compression libraries lzma, bz2 and zlib, with a 10-year deprecation for the old names.</p><p>Join the discussion to give your support, suggestions or feedback:</p><p><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-784-adding-zstandard-to-the-standard-library/87377" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discuss.python.org/t/pep-784-a</span><span class="invisible">dding-zstandard-to-the-standard-library/87377</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PEP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PEP784" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PEP784</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zstd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zstd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zstandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zstandard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stdlib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stdlib</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>