[Python-Dev] Octal literals

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/31/06, 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?

Apart from making 0640 a syntax error (which I think is wrong too),
could this be solved by *requiring* the argument to be a string? (Or
some other data type, but that's probably overkill.)

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