1 2 .. _archiving: 3 4 ****************************** 5 Data Compression and Archiving 6 ****************************** 7 8 The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib, 9 gzip, and bzip2 algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives. 10 See also :ref:`archiving-operations` provided by the :mod:`shutil` module. 11 12 13 .. toctree:: 14 15 zlib.rst 16 gzip.rst 17 bz2.rst 18 zipfile.rst 19 tarfile.rst 20
