[Pythonmac-SIG] Fixing the documentation...

has hengist.podd at virgin.net
Wed Apr 19 22:23:58 CEST 2006


Ronald wrote:

>Macpath deals with OS9/Carbon style paths (Volume:directory:file  instead of /Volume/directory/file).

Don't know where you're seeing this; I've tried a few of the functions and none work with HFS-style paths, only POSIX-style paths. The documentation describes it as an OS9 implementation of os.path, which I take to mean same Python API, presumably bridged to from os.path, but a different underlying implementation to get around the lack of POSIX APIs in OS 9 and earlier.

I would imagine os.path just uses the standard Unix APIs on OS X, in which case this module is completely redundant and can be removed fairly quickly after deprecation.


>Has can probably  comment on the usefulness of the rest of section 3.

Way ahead of you already. :)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-April/017046.html

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