The "compression" package#

Added in version 3.14.

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

• "compression.bz2" -- Re-exports "bz2"

• "compression.gzip" -- Re-exports "gzip"

• "compression.lzma" -- Re-exports "lzma"

• "compression.zlib" -- Re-exports "zlib"

• "compression.zstd" -- Wrapper for the Zstandard compression library