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PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library
-------------------------------------------------

The new ``compression`` package contains modules ``compression.lzma``, ``compression.bz2``,
``compression.gzip`` and ``compression.zlib`` which re-export the :mod:`lzma`, :mod:`bz2`,
The new ``compression`` package contains modules :mod:`!compression.lzma`, :mod:`!compression.bz2`,
:mod:`!compression.gzip` and :mod:`!compression.zlib` which re-export the :mod:`lzma`, :mod:`bz2`,
:mod:`gzip` and :mod:`zlib` modules respectively. The new import names under ``compression`` are
the canonical names for importing these compression modules going forward. However, the existing
modules names have not been deprecated. Any deprecation or removal of the existing compression modules
will occur no sooner than 5 years after the release of 3.14.

The new ``compression.zstd`` module provides compression and decompression APIs for the
The new :mod:`!compression.zstd` module provides compression and decompression APIs for the
Zstandard format via bindings to `Meta's zstd library <https://facebook.github.io/zstd/>`__.
Zstandard is a widely adopted, highly efficient, and fast compression format. In addition to the APIs
introduced in ``compression.zstd``, support for reading and writing Zstandard compressed archives
introduced in :mod:`!compression.zstd`, support for reading and writing Zstandard compressed archives
has been added to the :mod:`tarfile`, :mod:`zipfile`, and :mod:`shutil` modules.

Here's an example of using the new module to compress some data:
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