diff --git a/python_scrapers/OtherFilesToCopy.csv b/python_scrapers/OtherFilesToCopy.csv
index ffda104..ee81dd1 100644
--- a/python_scrapers/OtherFilesToCopy.csv
+++ b/python_scrapers/OtherFilesToCopy.csv
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 "filename", "permissions"
-"PublicAccess.py", 0644
-"PlanningUtils.py", 0644
-"SouthOxfordshireParser.py", 0644  
-"SouthOxfordshire.cgi", 0755
+"PublicAccess.py", "420"
+"PlanningUtils.py", "420"
+"SouthOxfordshireParser.py", "420"  
+"SouthOxfordshire.cgi", "493"
diff --git a/python_scrapers/README b/python_scrapers/README
index ed75f00..477fdbc 100644
--- a/python_scrapers/README
+++ b/python_scrapers/README
@@ -8,3 +8,14 @@ generates new cgi files in the CGI directory,
 copies in some other files that are needed,
 and commits all these changes to svn.
 
+There is currently something very nasty in the permissions
+column in the file OtherFilesToCopy.csv
+
+Until version 2.6 of python, there appears to be no convenient
+way to convert a string like 0755 into an octal. I am therefore
+using integers to specify permissions of the copied files...
+
+420 is 0644
+493 is 0755
+
+This is horrid, and must change in the future...
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