#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved. # """ """ __version__ = "$Id$" #end_pymotw_header import zlib import binascii original_data = 'This is the original text.' print 'Original :', len(original_data), original_data compressed = zlib.compress(original_data) print 'Compressed :', len(compressed), binascii.hexlify(compressed) decompressed = zlib.decompress(compressed) print 'Decompressed :', len(decompressed), decompressed