[issue33971] os.mknod is subject to "umask"

2018-06-26 Thread James Stevens
New submission from James Stevens : As per the underlying "libc" call, the node created with "mknod" is subjected to the user's current umask setting. This is not made clear in the Python documentation, but the "libc" documentation makes this clear (see at

[issue33970] bugs.python.org silently refuses registrations

2018-06-26 Thread James Stevens
New submission from James Stevens : bugs.python.org silently refuses registration if the user's "homepage" does not match some undisclosed URL validation test. The fact of the validation failure of the "homepage" is not disclosed at any time, including both the in

[issue33969] "copytree" refuses to copy to a mount point

2018-06-26 Thread James Stevens
New submission from James Stevens : Even if the mount-point directory is empty, "copytree" refuses to copy to a it becuase it will not perform a copy if the destination directory already exists - although it will accept any of the parents of destination existing, or not. Therefore,