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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/gzip.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py index 92a7eea0bc..a613bae876 100644 --- a/Lib/gzip.py +++ b/Lib/gzip.py @@ -66,9 +66,10 @@ class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase): Be aware that only the 'rb', 'ab', and 'wb' values should be used for cross-platform portability. - The compresslevel argument is an integer from 1 to 9 controlling the + 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. The default is 9. + and 9 is slowest and produces the most compression. 0 is no compression + at all. The default is 9. The mtime argument is an optional numeric timestamp to be written to the stream when compressing. All gzip compressed streams |