12. Data Compression and Archiving

The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib, gzip, and bzip2 algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives.

zlib		Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip.
gzip		Interfaces for gzip compression and decompression using file objects.
bz2		Interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with bzip2.
zipfile		Read and write ZIP-format archive files.
tarfile		Read and write tar-format archive files.

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