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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-06-07 12:45:37 -0700
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-06-07 12:45:37 -0700
commit9b2731bfdd9756592ae86b2b053969d40c9fa151 (patch)
tree98e61de825f8532e405d663383b9545e408491c5
parentc41616230211822e838634b84b445f8a124add08 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-9b2731bfdd9756592ae86b2b053969d40c9fa151.tar.gz
document the compress_level argument to tarfile.open (closes #21404)
Patch by Katherine Busch.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/tarfile.rst4
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
index 1ef270358b..15b88f87b7 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 9cf457286c..571f1a65e4 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