One-shot compression and decompression is provided through the
compress() and decompress() functions.
compress(
data[, compresslevel])
Compress data in one shot. If you want to compress data sequentially,
use an instance of BZ2Compressor instead. The compresslevel
parameter, if given, must be a number between 1 and 9;
the default is 9.
decompress(
data)
Decompress data in one shot. If you want to decompress data
sequentially, use an instance of BZ2Decompressor instead.