From d47b99643b085957e246ce86495016e5c1558ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Panter Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:24:06 +0000 Subject: Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan --- Doc/library/tarfile.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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` -- cgit v0.12