Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to mean 'no compression'.

Patch by Brian Brazil.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
index 470de08..465510f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ The module defines the following items:
    not given, the 'b' flag will be added to the mode to ensure the file is opened
    in binary mode for cross-platform portability.
 
-   The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from ``1`` to ``9`` controlling the
-   level of compression; ``1`` is fastest and produces the least compression, and
-   ``9`` is slowest and produces the most compression.  The default is ``9``.
+   The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from ``0`` to ``9`` controlling
+   the level of compression; ``1`` is fastest and produces the least
+   compression, and ``9`` is slowest and produces the most compression. ``0``
+   is no compression. The default is ``9``.
 
    The *mtime* argument is an optional numeric timestamp to be written to
    the stream when compressing.  All :program:`gzip` compressed streams are
diff --git a/Doc/library/zlib.rst b/Doc/library/zlib.rst
index bd08f7f..a3a27c5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zlib.rst
@@ -62,18 +62,19 @@ The available exception and functions in this module are:
 .. function:: compress(string[, level])
 
    Compresses the data in *string*, returning a string contained compressed data.
-   *level* is an integer from ``1`` to ``9`` controlling the level of compression;
+   *level* is an integer from ``0`` to ``9`` controlling the level of compression;
    ``1`` is fastest and produces the least compression, ``9`` is slowest and
-   produces the most.  The default value is ``6``.  Raises the :exc:`error`
-   exception if any error occurs.
+   produces the most.  ``0`` is no compression.  The default value is ``6``.
+   Raises the :exc:`error` exception if any error occurs.
 
 
 .. function:: compressobj([level])
 
    Returns a compression object, to be used for compressing data streams that won't
-   fit into memory at once.  *level* is an integer from ``1`` to ``9`` controlling
+   fit into memory at once.  *level* is an integer from ``0`` to ``9`` controlling
    the level of compression; ``1`` is fastest and produces the least compression,
-   ``9`` is slowest and produces the most.  The default value is ``6``.
+   ``9`` is slowest and produces the most.  ``0`` is no compression.  The default
+   value is ``6``.
 
 
 .. function:: crc32(data[, value])