I think bz2 is the smaller than tar.gz in general. You might try doing a few examples to see how they compare in the type of data you are compressing, to see if it makes a difference. I think decompressing tar.gz files might be slightly faster in some examples than tar.bz2 files, so it also depends whether speed is an issue.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello again... > > On Nov 19, 6:18 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this platform >> independent??http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-tarfile.html >> and/orhttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-December/118010.html >> might help. > > I see that there is not only tarfile: There is zlib, gzip, bz2 and > zipfile. I have no experience with any of these, but perhaps you can > recommend one of them for archiving a directory of data (plus > compression). > > What are the differences between these formats? > > Yours, > Simon > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
