12 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.

• 1. zlib — Compression compatible with gzip
• 2. gzip — Support for gzip files
• 3. bz2 — Compression compatible with bzip2
• 4. zipfile — Work with ZIP archives
• 5. tarfile — Read and write tar archive files