import zlib, sys, time, base64

text = open ('datafile1.txt', 'r').read()

print 'Raw size:' , sys.getsizeof(text)

compressed = zlib.compress(text,9)
print 'compressed size:',sys.getsizeof(compressed)

'''savecomp = open ('compdata.txt','a')

savecomp.write(compressed)
savecomp.close()'''

decompressed = zlib.decompress(compressed)
savecomp = open ('decomp.txt','a')
savecomp.write(decompressed)
savecomp.close()