BZ2Compressor.compress
- BZ2Compressor.compress(data)
Provide data to the compressor object. Returns a chunk of compressed data if possible, or b'' otherwise. When you have finished providing data to the compressor, call the flush() method to finish the compression process.
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1 Example
>>> import bz2 >>> def gen_data(chunks=10, chunksize=1000): ... """Yield incremental blocks of chunksize bytes.""" ... for _ in range(chunks): ... yield b"z" * chunksize ... >>> comp = bz2.BZ2Compressor() >>> out = b"" >>> for chunk in gen_data(): ... # Provide data to the compressor object ... out = out + comp.compress(chunk) ... >>> # Finish the compression process. Call this once you have >>> # finished providing data to the compressor. >>> out = out + comp.flush()
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