diff --git a/Doc/library/bz2.rst b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
index 7804c545054..fa6d7623949 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bz2.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ Handling of compressed files is offered by the :class:`BZ2File` class.
    reading. Instances support iteration in the same way as normal :class:`file`
    instances.
 
+   :class:`BZ2File` supports the :keyword:`with` statement.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added.
+
 
    .. method:: close()
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
index 2be8e055db2..c76bae869e6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ The module defines the following items:
    writing as *fileobj*, and retrieve the resulting memory buffer using the
    :class:`StringIO` object's :meth:`getvalue` method.
 
+   :class:`GzipFile` supports the :keyword:`with` statement.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added.
+
 
 .. function:: open(filename[, mode[, compresslevel]])