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 — Compression compatible with gzip

• gzip — Support for gzip files
  • Examples of usage

• bz2 — Compression compatible with bzip2
  • (De)compression of files
  • Sequential (de)compression
  • One-shot (de)compression

• zipfile — Work with ZIP archives
  • ZipFile Objects
  • PyZipFile Objects
  • ZipInfo Objects

• tarfile — Read and write tar archive files
  • TarFile Objects
  • TarInfo Objects
  • Examples
  • Supported tar formats
  • Unicode issues