On Monday, April 30, 2007, at 06:28AM, "Neal Norwitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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