PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library

[jamestwebber (James Webber)]

@gerardw

As an end user, given the choice between a stdlib package with a scary single underscore, which PEP 8 says means

That’s totally fine, though. The primary benefit of having _zstd in 3.14 is not for end users at all. It’s so that some future PEP like PEP 777: How to Re-invent the Wheel can point to this PEP and say “zstd has been available since 3.14 so we can now introduce it into the wheel format” and installers like pip and uv can write a shim to use the experimental version if they need to.