Can we set the number of threads in tarfile.open(outputArchive, "w:zst")

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I have a script that uses a new built-in package in Python 3.14:

from pathlib import Path
import tarfile

# List of NDJSON files you want to compress
fileToCompress = [r"E:\Personal Projects\tmp\tarFiles\chunk_0.ndjson",
                              r"E:\Personal Projects\tmp\tarFiles\chunk_0.ndjson",
                              r"E:\Personal Projects\tmp\tarFiles\chunk_0.ndjson"]

fileToCompress = [Path(p) for p in fileToCompress]

# Output archive name
outputArchive = r"E:\Personal Projects\tmp\tarFiles\dataset.tar.zst"
outputArchive = Path(outputArchive)

# Create a .tar.zst archive without including folder paths
with tarfile.open(outputArchive, "w:zst") as tar:
    for file in fileToCompress:
        # Use only the filename (no directories) inside the archive
        tar.add(file, arcname = file.name)

print(f"Created archive: {outputArchive}")

A big benefit of Zstandard is its built-in parallel compression. You can see here for how to set the number of threads in compression.zstd.open(zstdDir, 'wb') as g.

Can we configure the number of threads in with tarfile.open(outputArchive, "w:zst") as tar?