[RFC] Adding Py3k support while maintaining compatibility with python <= 2.6

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Renato Cunha <renatoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are some octal constants spread on some files in mercurial source, my
> preliminary patches for util.py define a bunch of module constants to operate.
> As an example, code that once was
>
>  st_mode &= 0666
>
> has become
>
>  st_mode &= MODE_666
>
> with MODE_666 being defined as
>
>  MODE_666 = int('666', 8)
>

on this particular point, I think python already defines a bunch of
constants to deal with modes (in the stat module).

regards,

Benoit