From: Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:24:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan
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Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
index 019c6850da..e3d006e542 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Some facts and figures:
    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.
+   accepts the keyword argument *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`