[Python-Dev] Do we still support MacOS < X?

[Nick Coghlan]

Armin Ronacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Yes, according to PEP 11, support was removed in 2.4. I suppose this
>> also means we could killed macpath in py3k...
> Pleaes don't do that.  The OS 9 path handling is still present in OS X GUI
> applications.  While you don't see it that often because OS X doesn't know
> the location bars but you can see it in iTunes for example.

As far as I can recall, the fact that there are remnants of MacOS paths
lying around in OS X is actually the reason macpath was salvaged when
all of the other MacOS specific modules were removed from 3.0.

Cheers,
Nick.

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