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