On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:49:23 -0800, James Colannino wrote: > Ok, so now I have a very interesting problem, this time related to > os.chmod. I have the following in a text file: 0600. My script reads > that number as a string and converts it to an integer for use with > chmod. However, when I do this, instead of the rw------ permissions
0600 is the octal representation of 384. "man chmod" should help you. Just use perm = int(string, 8) instead of perm = int(string) when converting to int the string you read from the file. -- Saluti, Mardy http://interlingua.altervista.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list