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I cant seem to understand how to compress a text file. I've checked out gzip and zlib libraries, they do give good info but I cant seem to understand how to do it.

The program should be able to compress a file into a list of words and list of positions to recreate the original file.

Help pls ty

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    import zlib, base64

text = 'STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW STACK OVERFLOW '

code =  base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(text,9))

print code

which gives :

    eNoLDnF09lbwD3MNcvPxD1cIHhxcAE9UKaU=

Now I can copy this code to a different program to get the original program back:

    import zlib, base64

s='eNoLDnF09lbwD3MNcvPxD1cIHhxcAE9UKaU='

data = zlib.decompress(base64.b64decode(s))

print data

Yeah but like I want to understand the code you know bro i dont understand this base64 part and b64decode.