Data Compression and Archiving¶
The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib,gzip, bzip2, lzma, and zstd algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-formatarchives. See alsoArchiving operations provided by theshutilmodule.
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compressionpackage compression.zstd— Compression compatible with the Zstandard formatzlib— Compression compatible withgzipgzip— Support forgzip filesbz2— Support forbzip2 compressionlzma— Compression using the LZMA algorithmzipfile— Work with ZIP archivestarfile— Read and write tar archive files