.. _archiving: ****************************** Data Compression and Archiving ****************************** 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
