Improve docs for umask option of pip module.

Note that the umask should be specified as an octal *string*, not an octal (or decimal) *integer*.

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Bob Vincent 6 years ago committed by GitHub
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description:
- The system umask to apply before installing the pip package. This is
useful, for example, when installing on systems that have a very
restrictive umask by default (e.g., 0077) and you want to pip install
restrictive umask by default (e.g., "0077") and you want to pip install
packages which are to be used by all users. Note that this requires you
to specify desired umask mode in octal, with a leading 0 (e.g., 0077).
to specify desired umask mode as an octal string, with a leading 0
(e.g., "0022"). Specifying the mode as a decimal integer (e.g., 22)
will also work, but an octal integer (e.g., 0022) will be converted to
decimal (18) before evaluation, which is almost certainly not what was
intended.
version_added: "2.1"
notes:
- Please note that virtualenv (U(http://www.virtualenv.org/)) must be

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