diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/mod.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/mod.rs
index aced5f377208..969be1a58908 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/mod.rs
@@ -30,4 +30,3 @@ pub use parser::count_rows;
 pub use read_impl::batched::{BatchedCsvReader, OwnedBatchedCsvReader};
 pub use reader::CsvReader;
 pub use schema_inference::infer_file_schema;
-pub use utils::is_compressed;
diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/utils.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/utils.rs
index 61a14399237a..33c6a6c8f290 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/utils.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/csv/read/utils.rs
@@ -45,22 +45,6 @@ pub(crate) fn get_file_chunks(
     offsets
 }
 
-// magic numbers
-const GZIP: [u8; 2] = [31, 139];
-const ZLIB0: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0x01];
-const ZLIB1: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0x9C];
-const ZLIB2: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0xDA];
-const ZSTD: [u8; 4] = [0x28, 0xB5, 0x2F, 0xFD];
-
-/// check if csv file is compressed
-pub fn is_compressed(bytes: &[u8]) -> bool {
-    bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB0)
-        || bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB1)
-        || bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB2)
-        || bytes.starts_with(&GZIP)
-        || bytes.starts_with(&ZSTD)
-}
-
 #[cfg(any(feature = "decompress", feature = "decompress-fast"))]
 fn decompress_impl<R: Read>(
     decoder: &mut R,
@@ -145,6 +129,7 @@ pub(crate) fn decompress(
     quote_char: Option<u8>,
     eol_char: u8,
 ) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
+    use crate::utils::compression::magic::*;
     if bytes.starts_with(&GZIP) {
         let mut decoder = flate2::read::MultiGzDecoder::new(bytes);
         decompress_impl(&mut decoder, n_rows, separator, quote_char, eol_char)
diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/utils/compression.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/compression.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d771b4c6ca1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/compression.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// magic numbers
+pub mod magic {
+    pub const GZIP: [u8; 2] = [31, 139];
+    pub const ZLIB0: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0x01];
+    pub const ZLIB1: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0x9C];
+    pub const ZLIB2: [u8; 2] = [0x78, 0xDA];
+    pub const ZSTD: [u8; 4] = [0x28, 0xB5, 0x2F, 0xFD];
+}
+
+/// check if csv file is compressed
+pub fn is_compressed(bytes: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    use magic::*;
+
+    bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB0)
+        || bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB1)
+        || bytes.starts_with(&ZLIB2)
+        || bytes.starts_with(&GZIP)
+        || bytes.starts_with(&ZSTD)
+}
diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/utils/mod.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/mod.rs
index 4711fab55609..a940870c9270 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/src/utils/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+pub mod compression;
 mod other;
 
+pub use compression::is_compressed;
 pub use other::*;
 
 pub const URL_ENCODE_CHAR_SET: &percent_encoding::AsciiSet = &percent_encoding::CONTROLS
diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/utils/other.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/other.rs
index 91b94ee24dde..6f31b796776d 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/src/utils/other.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/utils/other.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ use polars_error::to_compute_err;
 use regex::{Regex, RegexBuilder};
 
 use crate::mmap::{MmapBytesReader, ReaderBytes};
-use crate::prelude::is_compressed;
 
 pub fn get_reader_bytes<'a, R: Read + MmapBytesReader + ?Sized>(
     reader: &'a mut R,
@@ -50,6 +49,7 @@ pub unsafe fn maybe_decompress_bytes<'a>(
     out: &'a mut Vec<u8>,
 ) -> PolarsResult<&'a [u8]> {
     assert!(out.is_empty());
+    use crate::prelude::is_compressed;
     let is_compressed = bytes.len() >= 4 && is_compressed(bytes);
 
     if is_compressed {