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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/gzip.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/gzip.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py index e1b43a5..403040b 100644 --- a/Lib/gzip.py +++ b/Lib/gzip.py @@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase): A mode of 'r' is equivalent to one of 'rb', and similarly for 'w' and 'wb', and 'a' and 'ab'. - The compresslevel argument is an integer from 1 to 9 controlling the + 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. The default is 9. + and 9 is slowest and produces the most compression. 0 is no compression + at all. The default is 9. The mtime argument is an optional numeric timestamp to be written to the stream when compressing. All gzip compressed streams @@ -573,7 +574,7 @@ class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase): def compress(data, compresslevel=9): """Compress data in one shot and return the compressed string. - Optional argument is the compression level, in range of 1-9. + Optional argument is the compression level, in range of 0-9. """ buf = io.BytesIO() with GzipFile(fileobj=buf, mode='wb', compresslevel=compresslevel) as f: |