1 2.. _archiving: 3 4****************************** 5Data Compression and Archiving 6****************************** 7 8The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib, 9gzip, and bzip2 algorithms, and the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives. 10See 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