Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: If using octal digits instead of the stat.S_I constants is acceptable, I'd be +1 to add a note to the documentation (something like "mode could be a number (possibly expressed in octal form, such as 0755), one of the following values (as defined in the stat module), or a bitwise ORed combinations of them:").
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