diff --git a/fastparquet/api.py b/fastparquet/api.py
index 5b646299..54979e3e 100644
--- a/fastparquet/api.py
+++ b/fastparquet/api.py
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ class ParquetFile(object):
     fn: path/URL string or list of paths
         Location of the data. If a directory, will attempt to read a file
         "_metadata" within that directory. If a list of paths, will assume
-        that they make up a single parquet data set.
+        that they make up a single parquet data set. This parameter can also
+        be any file-like object, in which case this must be a single-file
+        dataset.
     verify: bool [False]
         test file start/end byte markers
     open_with: function
@@ -87,6 +89,14 @@ def __init__(self, fn, verify=False, open_with=default_open,
                 self.fn = '_metadata'
             self.fmd = fmd
             self._set_attrs()
+        elif hasattr(fn, 'read'):
+            # file-like
+            self._parse_header(fn, verify)
+            if self.file_scheme not in ['simple', 'empty']:
+                raise ValueError('Cannot use file-like input '
+                                 'with multi-file data')
+            open_with = lambda *args, **kwargs: fn
+            self.fn = None
         else:
             try:
                 fn2 = join_path(fn, '_metadata')
diff --git a/fastparquet/compression.py b/fastparquet/compression.py
index a5e37e96..bf03dfa5 100644
--- a/fastparquet/compression.py
+++ b/fastparquet/compression.py
@@ -74,18 +74,32 @@ def lz4_decompress(data, uncompressed_size):
 except ImportError:
     pass
 try:
-    import zstd
+    import zstandard
     def zstd_compress(data, **kwargs):
         kwargs['write_content_size'] = False
-        cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(**kwargs)
-        return cctx.compress(data, allow_empty=True)
+        cctx = zstandard.ZstdCompressor(**kwargs)
+        return cctx.compress(data)
     def zstd_decompress(data, uncompressed_size):
-        dctx = zstd.ZstdDecompressor()
+        dctx = zstandard.ZstdDecompressor()
         return dctx.decompress(data, max_output_size=uncompressed_size)
     compressions['ZSTD'] = zstd_compress
     decompressions['ZSTD'] = zstd_decompress
 except ImportError:
     pass
+if 'ZSTD' not in compressions:
+    try:
+        import zstd
+        def zstd_compress(data, **kwargs):
+            kwargs['write_content_size'] = False
+            cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(**kwargs)
+            return cctx.compress(data, allow_empty=True)
+        def zstd_decompress(data, uncompressed_size):
+            dctx = zstd.ZstdDecompressor()
+            return dctx.decompress(data, max_output_size=uncompressed_size)
+        compressions['ZSTD'] = zstd_compress
+        decompressions['ZSTD'] = zstd_decompress
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
 
 compressions = {k.upper(): v for k, v in compressions.items()}
 decompressions = {k.upper(): v for k, v in decompressions.items()}
diff --git a/fastparquet/test/test_api.py b/fastparquet/test/test_api.py
index 207acbbe..c4233189 100644
--- a/fastparquet/test/test_api.py
+++ b/fastparquet/test/test_api.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import io
 import os
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -142,6 +143,23 @@ def test_open_standard(tempdir):
     pd.util.testing.assert_frame_equal(d2, df)
 
 
+def test_filelike(tempdir):
+    df = pd.DataFrame({'x': [1, 2, 3, 4],
+                       'y': [1.0, 2.0, 1.0, 2.0],
+                       'z': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']})
+    fn = os.path.join(tempdir, 'foo.parquet')
+    write(fn, df, row_group_offsets=[0, 2])
+    with open(fn, 'rb') as f:
+        pf = ParquetFile(f, open_with=open)
+        d2 = pf.to_pandas()
+        pd.util.testing.assert_frame_equal(d2, df)
+
+    b = io.BytesIO(open(fn, 'rb').read())
+    pf = ParquetFile(b, open_with=open)
+    d2 = pf.to_pandas()
+    pd.util.testing.assert_frame_equal(d2, df)
+
+
 def test_cast_index(tempdir):
     df = pd.DataFrame({'i8': np.array([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype='uint8'),
                        'i16': np.array([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype='int16'),