Hi,
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:31:47 -0000 "Omer Katz" <omer.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have many compression algorithms as standard modules, but we lack two > important new algorithms: brotli and zstandard. > > Brotli is an important compression algorithm both for HTTP2 and for > compressing/decompressing HTTP responses. > ZStandard is another algorithm for compression that can easily beat gzip with > a better compression ratio and less compression time. > Both are now stable enough and are past the 1.0 mark. > > Let's include them in the standard library and, of course, make them optional > at build time like the rest of our compression modules. > What do you think? I would agree with ZStandard which is best-in-class currently. Brotli sounds less important. Just my 2 cents, though :-) In any case, each of these modules would need a maintainer willing to ensure maintenance inside the Python standard library. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/A7C7BKCZRKZIVGP3ILFTZDYR4VH7GYNU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
