Andrew Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Right. And this is not a hypothetical issue either -- in Perl, hex and
>oct *do* work the other way I believe. More reasons to get rid of
>these in Python 3000. Perhaps we should also get rid of hex/oct
>lterals?
I would like to argue for removing oct
