Compression and Archives

zipfile, tarfile, gzip, bz2, lzma and zlib.

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Create and extract .zip and .tar(.gz) archives.

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Read and write single compressed files transparently.

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The DEFLATE algorithm used by zip, gzip and PNG, plus CRC-32 checksums.

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