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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-08-09 10:30:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-09 10:30:30 (GMT) |
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bpo-32695: Docs and tests for compresslevel and preset kwargs in tarfile (GH-21470)
Co-Authored-By: Bo Bayles <bbayles@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit eb2d4a66ff07aa6e51cfaaa31afed31addf76936)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 13088a1..6afb839 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Some facts and figures: ``'x:bz2'``, :func:`tarfile.open` accepts the keyword argument *compresslevel* (default ``9``) to specify the compression level of the file. + For modes ``'w:xz'`` and ``'x:xz'``, :func:`tarfile.open` accepts the + keyword argument *preset* 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 |