Data Compression and Archiving¶
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 Archiving operations provided by the shutil
module.
- The
compression
package compression.zstd
--- Compression compatible with the Zstandard formatzlib
--- Compression compatible with gzipgzip
--- Support for gzip filesbz2
--- Support for bzip2 compressionlzma
--- Compression using the LZMA algorithmzipfile
--- Work with ZIP archivestarfile
--- Read and write tar archive files