[Pythonmac-SIG] Fixing the documentation...

[Daniel Lord]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:52, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>>>        2.1 macpath -- MacOS path manipulation functions
>>
>> Deprecate. Also note that the 2.4.3 documentation now says "It can
>> be used to manipulate old-style Macintosh pathnames on Mac OS X (or
>> any other platform)." which is incorrect (it uses POSIX-style
>> paths), so delete that sentence.
>
> I'm not a native english speaker, but I read this as "you can use
> this to manipulate OS9 style paths on any platform". Just like you
> can use ntpath to manipulate windows-style paths (c:\foo\bar.txt) on
> any platform. That's actually a useful feature.
>
> As I mentioned in another message this module might be useful to work
> with OS9-style paths as used by some Carbon API's.

Good suggestion, Ronald. I was just tinkering around with appscript  
and MS Excel a few days ago (still cannot access some things like  
borders properly and others are just 'bass-ackwards' in the Excel  
terminology defs so I gave up) but Excel expects colon-separated  
paths in file paths (yes even in 2004 when they last updated it). SO  
keeping the OS9 path separator routines is a good idea. I didn't know  
about them and so wrote my own regex conversion functions (ugh!) as a  
workaround.
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