1.. _archiving: 2 3****************************** 4Data Compression and Archiving 5****************************** 6 7The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib, 8gzip, bzip2 and lzma algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format 9archives. See also :ref:`archiving-operations` provided by the :mod:`shutil` 10module. 11 12 13.. toctree:: 14 15 zlib.rst 16 gzip.rst 17 bz2.rst 18 lzma.rst 19 zipfile.rst 20 tarfile.rst 21