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Author georg.brandl
Recipients docs@python, georg.brandl, krichter, r.david.murray
Date 2015-10-11.16:34:26
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A short sentence like 

Be careful when using number literals for *mode*. The conventional UNIX notation for numeric modes uses an octal base, which needs to be indicated with a ``0o`` prefix in Python.

should be a good addition here.  (I wonder why it isn't there, I seem to recall an earlier issue about this.)
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