Default arguments for access 'mode' parameters in pathlib and os should display as octal literals

[AidanWoolley]

BPO	47247
Nosy	@ericvsmith

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title = "Default arguments for access 'mode' parameters in pathlib and os should display as octal literals"
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[AidanWoolley]

E.g. 0o777 rather than 511

This is a regression since the docs for 3.9

Affected functions/methods:
pathlib.Path.mkdir
pathlib.Path.touch
os.open
os.mkdir
os.makedirs
os.mkfifo
os.mknod

[ericvsmith]

I think this is a duplicate of bpo-46782.

[slateny]

Agreed, looks like a duplicate so will close in favour of that one.