Martin Panter added the comment:

I’m not sure that is perfectly correct. It really does default to -1, and that 
is passed to the underlying zlib library (-1 = Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION). It is 
the zlib library that decides that this means 6, but in theory I guess it could 
be configured or modified in the future with a different default. Perhaps we 
should clarify the text in the documentation (including the doc string) to say 
this instead?

At the very least, the documentation should continue to say that -1 is 
acceptable, and what it means.

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nosy: +martin.panter
stage:  -> patch review
versions: +Python 3.5

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