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Tue Jan 31 21:06:29 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/060270.html

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:55, Andrew Koenig wrote:
 > Would you really want chmod(path, 0640) and chmod(path, "0640") to have
 > different meanings?

Actually, the proposal that suggested this also proposed that 0640 would raise 
a SyntaxError, since it was all about getting rid of octal literals.

  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>

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