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
compressionpackage 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