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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>12. 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Data Compression and Archiving<a class="headerlink" href="#data-compression-and-archiving" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>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. See also <a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#archiving-operations"><em>Archiving operations</em></a> provided by the <a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#module-shutil" title="shutil: High-level file operations, including copying."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">shutil</span></tt></a> module.</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html">12.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">zlib</span></tt> — Compression compatible with <strong class="program">gzip</strong></a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="gzip.html">12.2. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gzip</span></tt> — Support for <strong class="program">gzip</strong> files</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gzip.html#examples-of-usage">12.2.1. Examples of usage</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html">12.3. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bz2</span></tt> — Compression compatible with <strong class="program">bzip2</strong></a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#de-compression-of-files">12.3.1. (De)compression of files</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#sequential-de-compression">12.3.2. Sequential (de)compression</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#one-shot-de-compression">12.3.3. One-shot (de)compression</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="zipfile.html">12.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">zipfile</span></tt> — Work with ZIP archives</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="zipfile.html#zipfile-objects">12.4.1. 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