On 2007-10-27, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:28:02 -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>>>> Even clearer is not to allow octal literals :) Is there *any* use for
>>>> them?
>>>
>>> The mode argument to os.chmod.
>>
>> You mean instead of
>>
>> import this
>> os.chmod(filename, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK)
>>
>> which explicitly (rather than implicitly) spells it out?
>
> And the equivalent of ``os.chmod(filename, 0777)`` looks like what!?
os.chmod(filename, int('777', 8))
It's good enough for most other bases. ;)
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