Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I think the behaviour that an error is raised if the permissions are not the same is a nuisance that does not correspond to actual use cases (*). People who care about permissions so much that they expect an error can do the check themselves, or call chmod().
(*) and I got similar errors several times when running setup.py, only I didn't know it was because of that "feature" ---------- nosy: +pitrou, terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21082> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com