On 21 Aug, 20:48, Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> wrote: ...
> James Harris wrote: > > It maybe made sense once but this relic of the past should have been > > consigned to the waste bin of history long ago. > > Sigh. Nonsense. I use octal notation *every day*, for two extremely > prevalent purposes: file creation umask, and Unix file permissions > (i.e. the chmod() function/command). You misunderstand. I was saying that taking a leading zero as indicating octal is archaic. Octal itself is fine where appropriate. The chmod command doesn't require a leading zero. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
