[Pythonmac-SIG] converting file paths between HFS and POSIX formats

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 22, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Larry Meyn wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, has wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how useful HFS path conversion options will really be; 
>> it seemed an idea to put it in for completeness' sake, but perhaps 
>> it's just overkill?
>
> There are still some scriptable applications that only deal with HFS 
> paths, so I would vote for including conversion options if it's no too 
> much trouble.  However, the need will decrease with time. (Although I 
> think KaleidaGraph may never get upgraded scripting abilities.)

Does it really take HFS paths as strings, and not FSSpec?  Even if it 
did, wouldn't a FSSpec be coerced to a HFS path string along the way?

I'm really not sure you ever really need or want to use HFS path 
literals, anywhere, ever, anymore.

-bob