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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2017-03-24 11:27:42 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-03-24 11:27:42 (GMT)
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bpo-19930: The mode argument of os.makedirs() no longer affects the file (#799)
permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
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@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ Changes in the Python API
and module are affected by this change.
(Contributed by INADA Naoki and Eugene Toder in :issue:`29463`.)
+* The *mode* argument of :func:`os.makedirs` no longer affects the file
+ permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
+ To set their file permission bits you can set the umask before invoking
+ ``makedirs()``.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19930`.)
+
+
CPython bytecode changes
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