newbie - integer variable with leading zero for os.makedirs

Paul Rubin http
Tue Dec 2 00:27:05 EST 2003


jtoher at cyllene.uwa.edu.au (james) writes:
> I've tried:
> 
> permission = int('750', 8)
> mode = oct(permission)
> 
> but this returns an octal string '0755' and os.makedirs barfs again. 
> It really wants an integer and it really wants that leading zero.  How
> can I assign a number with a leading zero to an integer variable?

Just say 

   permission = 0750




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