Python Library Reference

Previous: 7.17.2 Sequential (de)compression Up: 7.17 bz2 Next: 7.18 zipfile

---

7.17.3 One-shot (de)compression

One-shot compression and decompression is provided through the compress() and decompress() functions.

compress(

data[, compresslevel])

Compress data in one shot. If you want to compress data sequentially, use an instance of BZ2Compressor instead. The compresslevel parameter, if given, must be a number between 1 and 9; the default is 9.

decompress(

data)

Decompress data in one shot. If you want to decompress data sequentially, use an instance of BZ2Decompressor instead.

---

Python Library Reference

Previous: 7.17.2 Sequential (de)compression Up: 7.17 bz2 Next: 7.18 zipfile

---

Release 2.3, documentation updated on July 29, 2003.