getting umask without changing it

[Fredrik Lundh]

Faik Uygur wrote:

> Is there a python way of getting the current umask without changing it?
> os.umask changes it, and i dont want to use os.system("umask")

just call os.umask twice:

    current_mask = os.umask(0)
    os.umask(current_mask)

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