[Python-Dev] deprecating macpath and macurl2path (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Mon Apr 30 15:45:34 CEST 2007


On Monday, April 30, 2007, at 06:28AM, "Neal Norwitz" <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

PEP 11 notes that Mac OS 9 support was unsupported in 2.4. There are still quite a few places that we check for sys.platform == 'mac'. There are also (at least) 2 modules (macpath and macurl2path) that look specific to Mac OS. (OS X has sys.platform == 'darwin'.)

Shall I add a deprecation warning on import to these modules or remove them? I plan to remove other mac specific code (checking sys.platform) in the stdlib unless someone beat me to it.

I don't know if anyone uses macpath for it, but OS9-style paths are still used in a number of APIs on OSX.

macurl2path seems OS9 specific.

Ronald



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