simple python 2 to python question

[Chris]

On 2020-12-11 14:41, Douglas Thrift wrote:
> On 12/11/2020 2:06 PM, Chris wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm working on a port I maintain to become py3x compatible.
>> I'm down to one lousy error:
>> passwd.py", line 25    chmod(self.pw_file, 0600)
>>                             ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid token
>> 
>> I tried to sort it, but failed. So allowed 2to3 to take a shot
>> at it, and it returned:
>> chmod(self.pw_file, 0o600)
>> 
>> which just seems wrong.
>> 
>> What am I missing -- aside from more familiarity with python3 ;-)
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --Chris
> 
> Python 3 changed the syntax for octal literals to start with '0o' rather 
> than with
> just '0', so '0o600' is correct.
A huge thanks, doug! :-)
I guess I should have already known that. But it just looked so wrong.

--Chris