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diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst index 50d04627e7..2cbd2d5f5b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The module defines the following items: ``'w'``, or ``'wb'`` for binary mode, or ``'rt'``, ``'at'``, or ``'wt'`` for text mode. The default is ``'rb'``. - The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from 1 to 9, as for the + The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from 0 to 9, as for the :class:`GzipFile` constructor. For binary mode, this function is equivalent to the :class:`GzipFile` @@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ The module defines the following items: in text mode, use :func:`.open` (or wrap your :class:`GzipFile` with an :class:`io.TextIOWrapper`). - The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from ``1`` 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``. + 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. ``0`` + is no compression. The default is ``9``. The *mtime* argument is an optional numeric timestamp to be written to the stream when compressing. All :program:`gzip` compressed streams are |