zlib --- Compression compatible with gzip

zlib --- Compression compatible with gzip

gzip --- Support for gzip files

gzip --- Support for gzip files

bz2 --- Support for bzip2 compression

bz2 --- Support for bzip2 compression

lzma --- Compression using the LZMA algorithm

lzma --- Compression using the LZMA algorithm

zipfile --- Work with ZIP archives

zipfile --- Work with ZIP archives

tarfile --- Read and write tar archive files

tarfile --- Read and write tar archive files

Data Compression and Archiving

The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib, gzip, bzip2 and lzma algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives. See also Archiving operations provided by the shutil module.

• zlib --- Compression compatible with gzip
• gzip --- Support for gzip files
  • Examples of usage
• bz2 --- Support for bzip2 compression
  • (De)compression of files
  • Incremental (de)compression
  • One-shot (de)compression
• lzma --- Compression using the LZMA algorithm
  • Reading and writing compressed files
  • Compressing and decompressing data in memory
  • Miscellaneous
  • Specifying custom filter chains
  • Examples
• zipfile --- Work with ZIP archives
  • ZipFile Objects
  • PyZipFile Objects
  • ZipInfo Objects
  • Command-Line Interface
    • Command-line options
• tarfile --- Read and write tar archive files
  • TarFile Objects
  • TarInfo Objects
  • Command-Line Interface
    • Command-line options
  • Examples
  • Supported tar formats
  • Unicode issues