[Python-3000] Octal

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Can we wait until Unix file permissions are expressed in something  
> other than octal?

The time machine at work:

machine:~/work/25 loewis$ ls -l x.py
-rw-r--r--   1 loewis  admin  22 Aug 25  2006 x.py
machine:~/work/25 loewis$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import os
 >>> from stat import *
 >>> os.chmod("x.py", S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWUSR|S_IWGRP)
 >>>
machine:~/work/25 loewis$ ls -l x.py
-rw-rw----   1 loewis  admin  22 Aug 25  2006 x.py

Not as brief as 0660, but more readable.

Regards,
Martin