From 9b2731bfdd9756592ae86b2b053969d40c9fa151 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:45:37 -0700 Subject: document the compress_level argument to tarfile.open (closes #21404) Patch by Katherine Busch. --- Doc/library/tarfile.rst | 4 ++++ Misc/ACKS | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 1ef2703..15b88f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ Some facts and figures: If *fileobj* is specified, it is used as an alternative to a :term:`file object` opened in binary mode 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. + 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 diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS index 9cf4572..571f1a6 100644 --- a/Misc/ACKS +++ b/Misc/ACKS @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ Roger Burnham Alastair Burt Tarn Weisner Burton Lee Busby +Katherine Busch Ralph Butler Nicolas Cadou Jp Calderone -- cgit v0.12