Joshua Bronson <jabron...@gmail.com> added the comment: > My suspicion is that people setting explicit file permissions > typically know what they are doing, and that you will find that > your tickets get closed as invalid, explaining to you that this > mode usage is fully intentional.
For what it's worth, I asked Mike Bayer (author of Beaker and Mako, the packages in question) what the intention was, and the 0750 seems to have been an error: Apparently HTML::Mason (what Myghty was based on) may have originally used 0750 but has since changed it to 0775 (search for "0775" in http://svn.urth.org/filedetails.php? repname=Mason&path=%2Ftrunk%2Flib%2FHTML%2FMason%2FInterp.pm&rev=0&sc=0) . The 0750 propagated from Myghty into Mako and Beaker, but has no apparent reason to be there. For what else it's worth, I've run this by a few other programmers I consider quite smart and experienced (including Ian Bicking), and none of them realized the meaning of the mode parameter either. (If they had I never would have filed this ticket, as I checked with them first!) I agree that knowledge of relative paths should be assumed, but I'm convinced that the mode behavior is widely misunderstood enough to warrant at least one-line "gotcha" in the docstring. </$.02> _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5220> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
