Improve docs for umask option of pip module. (#49146)

* Improve docs for umask option of pip module; 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 Alicia Cozine
parent 59e7a9442e
commit 67a70a1205

@ -98,9 +98,12 @@ options:
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, (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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