From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 19:45:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: document the compress_level argument to tarfile.open (closes #21404) X-Git-Tag: v3.4.2rc1~425 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b2731bfdd9756592ae86b2b053969d40c9fa151;p=python document the compress_level argument to tarfile.open (closes #21404) Patch by Katherine Busch. --- 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