Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

I think you misunderstand what's happening. It's not that os.chmod
accepts octal digits, but Python:

py> 04732
2522

So the support for octal numbers isn't something that chmod deserves
credit for.

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