Thecompression package

Added in version 3.14.

Thecompression package contains the canonical compression modulescontaining interfaces to several different compression algorithms. Some ofthese modules have historically been available as separate modules; those willcontinue to be available under their original names for compatibility reasons,and will not be removed without a deprecation cycle. The use of modules incompression is encouraged where practical.

  • compression.bz2 – Re-exportsbz2

  • compression.gzip – Re-exportsgzip

  • compression.lzma – Re-exportslzma

  • compression.zlib – Re-exportszlib

  • compression.zstd – Wrapper for the Zstandard compression library