arclib aims at providing a unified API for accessing Python's archive formats. In particular, it provides the following APIs:
- Basic, one-shot: For gzip, bzip2, and LZMA. Supports one-shot compression and decompression.
- Basic, incremental: For bzip2 and LZMA. Supports incremental compression and decompression.
- Complex: For zip and tar. Supports accessing the various members and their respective information.