Data Compression and Archiving

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Data Compression and Archiving

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

.. toctree::

compression.rst compression.zstd.rst zlib.rst gzip.rst bz2.rst lzma.rst zipfile.rst tarfile.rst