[Pythonmac-SIG] converting Mac 'path' to file path in appscript?

[Bill Janssen]

Can someone tell me how to convert the old Classic-style paths
returned from many of the appscript properties to real OS X file
paths?  Is there some appscript constructor which takes a path
as an argument and returns a Unix path?

Here's an example:

>>> app('Microsoft Word').active_document.path()
u'wolfe:downloads'
>>> 

That should be "/downloads".

By the way, I'll update the appscript Wiki page with the answers I
get.

Bill