Data Compression in Python: Reducing File Sizes and Improving Efficiency

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Python's standard library has a rich collection of modules for data compression and archiving. One can select whichever is suitable for his job.

There are following modules related to data compression −

Sr.No.	Module & Description
1	zlib Compression compatible with gzip.
2	gzip Support for gzip files.
3	bz2 Support for bz2 compression.
4	lzma Compression using the LZMA algorithm.
5	zipfile Work with ZIP archives.
6	tarfilev Read and write tar archive files.

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