Hi @remilapeyre,

apologies for responding after a long time.

Should os.rst be updated too?

Currently the main documentation does not have the ambiguity that exists in help('os.chmod'):

It avoids this in part by not getting into the details of what the values of mode are; by abstracting away some of that complexity in the stat module.

I feel that changing it could be changing documentation that has little issues to make it align with the help blurb?

Also, I think the docstring of os.fchmod() should be updated as well.

On my system it currently (3.8.3) says:

Would you like to be added explicit descriptions for fd and mode?

Hi, @remilapeyre,
I have changed help(os.fchmod) but not os.rst.

I need to know if this is still considered a documentation change that does not need a NEWS entry or whether I should generate one please.

Thanks for making the changes @amaajemyfren ! Can you please fix the conflicts with the master branch?

@amaajemyfren sorry this PR fell out of people’s radar — could you merge the main branch and regenerate the file?