What we actually want to test here is that the given type directory is created
and has the correct permission, we don't care much about the basedir itself.
Also, the download dir is not created automatically.
This test failed on Python 3.7 because intermediate directories now aren't
created with the given mode anymore:
https://bugs.python.org/issue19930https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/3.7.html#changes-in-the-python-api
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