.. _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, 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
