[Python-Dev] Octal literals
mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk
mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Jan 31 21:03:36 CET 2006
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?
I want the former to be a syntax error, as I said in the preceding paragraph.
-M-
More information about the Python-Dev
mailing list