Thanks for the patch Tommy. One minor quirk that bugs me: *mode*'s gets marked up with an opening quote rather than an apostrophe. Perhaps we can change it to a Unicode apostrophe (*mode*’s). Another alternative would be: the octal representation of *mode*.

But looking at the code, makedirs() just passes “mode” through to mkdir(). Maybe the mkdir() documentation needs updating too. Maybe it is better to just refer from makedirs() to mkdir(), rather than duplicating everything; I’m not sure.