Joshua Bronson <jabron...@gmail.com> added the comment: Ah, I was misunderstanding the behavior of mkdir, thank you for the explanation.
My misunderstanding stemmed from recently coming across two widely-used packages which both pass mode=0750 to os.makedirs. I have no idea why they would be doing this (as it effectively throws away part of the umask), unless they too are misunderstanding the mode parameter. My suspicion is that the mode parameter is widely misunderstood to mean the desired permissions of the created directory. I have filed tickets in the packages in which I came across this to make sure they're doing what they intend. Could the __doc__ for os.mkdir and os.makedirs be expanded to make this clearer? _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5220> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
