Python 3.14 introduces the compression package that consolidates five compression modules (bz2, gzip, lzma, zlib, and the new zstd) under a unified interface. The article demonstrates basic compression/decompression operations, file handling with compressed data, and incremental compression for streaming scenarios. A comparison shows zstd achieving the best compression ratio (0.24%) on sample data. All modules provide compress() and decompress() functions, while four offer open() for file operations and classes for incremental processing.
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