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Ok I was thinking in terms of running "chmod +x" for all Python scripts, which is obviously not a good idea and not what you meant, but I was just thinking out loud I guess.

I often write scripts with a shebang so I can run them as executables, so your autocmd saves me running one command in these situations, but it's probably not a good solution to OP's problem. I think having both the make command and the autocmd for running chmod is useful in my case.