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