On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:55, Andrew Koenig wrote: > Would you really want chmod(path, 0640) and chmod(path, "0640") to have > different meanings?
Actually, the proposal that suggested this also proposed that 0640 would raise a SyntaxError, since it was all about getting rid of octal literals. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com