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| author | Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> | 2016-04-13 03:24:06 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com> | 2016-04-13 03:24:06 (GMT) |
| commit | d47b99643b085957e246ce86495016e5c1558ebb (patch) | |
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Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 019c685..e3d006e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Some facts and figures: 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. + accepts the keyword argument *compresslevel* (default ``9``) 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` |