At 7:49 PM +0200 4/18/02, Just van Rossum wrote: >I can't reproduce what you say in the comment ("mod completely ignored"), but >something is ignored indeed: > > - os.mkdir(path, 0777) results in drwxr-xr-x Did you check your umask? A umask of 022 would correctly result in this behavior. -- Doug > - os.mkdir(path, 0) results in d--------- > - os.chmod(path, 0777) results in drwxrwxrwx