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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-06-07 19:45:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-06-07 19:45:37 (GMT) |
| commit | 3afd956e09b22558543994b80082e8f51151de5d (patch) | |
| tree | 5f3198dd9f71f389bec4fd9ca40adb8475645e39 /Doc/library/tarfile.rst | |
| parent | 93e51aac540f0dbd795e709a6fad0b9a62a5ae73 (diff) | |
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document the compress_level argument to tarfile.open (closes #21404)
Patch by Katherine Busch.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 1c6b67c..bd218e1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ Some facts and figures: If *fileobj* is specified, it is used as an alternative to a file object opened for *name*. It is supposed to be at position 0. + For modes ``'w:gz'``, ``'r:gz'``, ``'w:bz2'``, ``'r:bz2'``, :func:`tarfile.open` + accepts the keyword argument *compresslevel* to specify the compression level of + the file. + For special purposes, there is a second format for *mode*: ``'filemode|[compression]'``. :func:`tarfile.open` will return a :class:`TarFile` object that processes its data as a stream of blocks. No random seeking will |