zlib --- Compression compatible with gzip

zlib --- Compression compatible with gzip

gzip --- Support for gzip files

gzip --- Support for gzip files

bz2 --- Compression compatible with bzip2

bz2 --- Compression compatible with bzip2

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, and bzip2 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 --- 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
  • Command-Line Interface
    • Command-line options
• tarfile --- Read and write tar archive files
  • TarFile Objects
  • TarInfo Objects
  • Examples
  • Supported tar formats
  • Unicode issues