zlib_memory.py

#1/usr/bin/env python

# this is from The Python
# Standard Library by example
# ISBN13: 9780321767349

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