[Python-Dev] Mac questions

[Jack Jansen]

On 4 Jan 2005, at 11:41, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> And finally: Is there any other way to find the true spelling of a 
>> file
>> except than a linear search with opendir()/readdir()/closedir() ?
>
> Yes, definitely.  I'm positive you can do this with CoreServices, but 
> I'm not sure it's portable to Darwin (not Mac OS X).  I'm sure there 
> is some Darwin-compatible way of doing it, but I don't know it off the 
> top of my head.  I'll try to remember to look into it if nobody else 
> finds it first.

I haven't used pure darwin, but I assume it has support for FSRefs, 
right? Then you could use FSPathMakeRef() to turn the filename into an 
FSRef, and then FSGetCatalogInfo() to get the true filename.
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