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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:58:33 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 04/30/2013 11:49 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>> On 04/30/2013 11:27 AM, tromeo@mdlogix.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Please help me to debug
>>>
>>> -------
>>> shmid = shmget(SHM_KEY, SHM_SIZE, 0o666)
>>>                                                                      ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
>>
>> 0o666 is indeed a syntax error.  What is that value supposed to be?  If it's
>> intended to be an int that's equal to octal 666, just use 438
>
> Without checking docs, I would guess that to be Unix file permissions,
> which make most sense in octal.
>
>

So put the octal description in the comment.  I think the Python 2.x 
syntax for octal is a travesty.  And of course it's non-portable to 
Python 3.  I would not intentionally leave 0666 in my source code, 
unless there was some other overriding reason for it.  And then I'd 
surround it with snide remarks.


-- 
DaveA