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 in one shot. If you want to decompress data
sequentially, use an instance of BZ2Decompressor instead.
Release 2.3.5, documentation updated on February 8, 2005.
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