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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 31 21:47:12 CET 2006

On 1/31/06, Andrew Koenig <ark at acm.org> wrote:

> 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?

Apart from making 0640 a syntax error (which I think is wrong too), could this be solved by requiring the argument to be a string? (Or some other data type, but that's probably overkill.)

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