diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
index 6e8baba04fb92df..741d40da152101f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ be finalized; only the internally used file object will be closed. See the
 .. versionadded:: 3.2
    Added support for the context management protocol.
 
-.. class:: TarFile(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, tarinfo=TarInfo, dereference=False, ignore_zeros=False, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape', pax_headers=None, debug=0, errorlevel=0)
+.. class:: TarFile(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, tarinfo=TarInfo, dereference=False, ignore_zeros=False, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape', pax_headers=None, debug=0, errorlevel=1)
 
    All following arguments are optional and can be accessed as instance attributes
    as well.