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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2016-04-13 03:24:06 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2016-04-13 03:24:06 (GMT)
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Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Some facts and figures:
For modes ``'w:gz'``, ``'r:gz'``, ``'w:bz2'``, ``'r:bz2'``, ``'x:gz'``,
``'x:bz2'``, :func:`tarfile.open` accepts the keyword argument
- *compresslevel* to specify the compression level of the file.
+ *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`