.. _archiving:
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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, bzip2 and lzma 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
lzma.rst
zipfile.rst
tarfile.rst