[Python-Dev] Octal literals (original) (raw)

Andrew Koenig ark at acm.org
Tue Jan 31 20:55:33 CET 2006


Possibly os.chmod and os.umask could be extended to take a string argument so we could write chmod(path, "0640").

-1.

Would you really want chmod(path, 0640) and chmod(path, "0640") to have different meanings?



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