Add ZSTD compression format #395
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Support is provided by the zstandard library recommended by ZSTD format maintainers (see https://python-zstandard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/decompressor.html).
The implementation is similar to the one we got for gzip, except we did not have to monkeypatch it this time.
More information about ZSTD can be found at https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md