From 9411c145d4ee2d2bc9adc2f34dba223b39099465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hauntsaninja <>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:38:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-40445: Update compileall.compile_dir docs

---
 Doc/library/compileall.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/compileall.rst b/Doc/library/compileall.rst
index b1ae9d60e8ae14..78f8da049ccac8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/compileall.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/compileall.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Public functions
    and a false value otherwise.
 
    The *maxlevels* parameter is used to limit the depth of the recursion; it
-   defaults to ``10``.
+   defaults to ``sys.getrecursionlimit()``.
 
    If *ddir* is given, it is prepended to the path to each file being compiled
    for use in compilation time tracebacks, and is also compiled in to the
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ Public functions
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.9
       Added *stripdir*, *prependdir* and *limit_sl_dest* arguments.
+      Default value of *maxlevels* was changed from ``10`` to ``sys.getrecursionlimit()``
 
 .. function:: compile_file(fullname, ddir=None, force=False, rx=None, quiet=0, legacy=False, optimize=-1, invalidation_mode=None, \*, stripdir=None, prependdir=None, limit_sl_dest=None)