14 Oct
2020
14 Oct
'20
10:38 a.m.
but Python isn't trying to have the "optimal cutting-edge" thing in its standard library. More like "the well-established, widely-used" thing.
I also agree with this.
At present, I have confidence in zstd. There seems to be a trend that some programmer users are switching to zstd.
Don't know if it will be popular among non-programmer users. If this happens in the future, what path will it take?
I feel like you making Zstd available on PyPI is wonderful, and a huge service to the community.
There was already a zstandard module on PyPI since 2016, but its API is different from bz2/lzma module. I intentionally didn't look at its implementation when implementing the module.