Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:28:02 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > > >>>> Even clearer is not to allow octal literals :) Is there *any* use for >>>> them? >>>> >>> The mode argument to os.chmod. >>> >> You mean instead of >> >> import this >> os.chmod(filename, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK) >> >> which explicitly (rather than implicitly) spells it out? >> > > And the equivalent of ``os.chmod(filename, 0777)`` looks like what!? > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > Ugly.
But is one function in one library, which doesn't even exist in one of the major operating systems really worth its own syntactic construct in the language? It seems that it would be fairly simple for python to treat the octal argument as a string, rather than an int: os.chmod(filename, "777") If somebody had a good *general* use for octal, it might be worth having in the language. Otherwise, it seems like an unused which is only kept around because it used to get played with. (back in the days of six bit hardware?) Cheers, Cliff
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