os.chmod() question ?

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:08:24PM -0800, Anand B Pillai wrote:
>
> [snip - differeing behavior of os.chmod on Windows and Linux]
> 
> Do I need to pass an octal integer as the second argument ?

  No.  But you do need to pass the right bits, and these are most commonly
selected by typing in an integer in octal base.  ;)  You seem to be aware
that 0777 is not the same as 777, so go ahead and throw the 0 in front. 
This should be required on Linux as well as Windows, so I'm not sure how you
got the results you did on Linux (I get -r----x--t when passing 777 to
chmod).

  Jp

> 
> Thanks
> Anand Pillai
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