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Data Compression and Archiving
gzip
Functions that read and write gzipped files.
The user of the file doesn't have to worry about the compression,
but random access is not allowed.
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Symbols in gzip
b
- BadGzipFile
- Exception raised in some cases for invalid gzip files.
c
- compress
- Compress data in one shot and return the compressed string.
d
- decompress
- Decompress a gzip compressed string in one shot.
g
- GzipFile
- The GzipFile class simulates most of the methods of a file object with the exception of the truncate() method.
o
- open
- Open a gzip-compressed file in binary or text mode.