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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 7a233c1633..5fa4787a0c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Some facts and figures: For modes ``'w:gz'``, ``'r:gz'``, ``'w:bz2'``, ``'r:bz2'``, ``'x:gz'``, ``'x:bz2'``, :func:`tarfile.open` accepts the keyword argument - *compresslevel* to specify the compression level of the file. + *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` |