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59 | One-shot compression and decompression is provided through the | |
60 | <tt class="function">compress()</tt> and <tt class="function">decompress()</tt> functions. | |
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65 | <td><var>data</var><big>[</big><var>, compresslevel</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
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67 | Compress <var>data</var> in one shot. If you want to compress data sequentially, | |
68 | use an instance of <tt class="class">BZ2Compressor</tt> instead. The <var>compresslevel</var> | |
69 | parameter, if given, must be a number between <code>1</code> and <code>9</code>; | |
70 | the default is <code>9</code>. | |
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