[Python-Dev] Octal literals

[mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk]

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?


I want the former to be a syntax error, as I said in the preceding paragraph.

-M-