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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, and bzip2 algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives. | |
| See also :ref:`archiving-operations` provided by the :mod:`shutil` module. | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| zlib.rst | |
| gzip.rst | |
| bz2.rst | |
| zipfile.rst | |
| tarfile.rst |