[issue6282] In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified

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[issue6282] In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: The TarFile.bz2open function does have a 'compresslevel' parameter. How do you use TarFile? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker __

[issue6282] In tarfile, compression level cannot be specified

New submission from Omri Shaked : When creating a TarFile object that uses compression, the compressor is always created using its default compression level. import bz2 self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Compressor() You can't specify the compression level (i.e. self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Compressor(1)). -- com