On 25-Jan-07, at 12:08 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > On 24 Jan, 2007, at 18:44, Dethe Elza wrote: > >> Also, paths are different on >> internationalized versions of OS X. > > The aren't AFAIK. The finder is localized and shows different > folder names if you run in another language (that's why there are > ".localized" turds in several directories). Windows is the OS where > directory names actually do change depending on the language you > install it in. > > The OSX implementation actually makes it possible to have several > accounts with different languages and have them all see their > localized version of folder names.
Cool, I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure older versions of Mac OS (pre-OS X) *did* work that way--you had to use symbolic constants to refer to known folders and not count on the exact file paths. That said, using fully-qualified paths can still be fragile, since users may move things around when you least expect it. --Dethe "There's a little bit of God in every truck driver and a little bit of truck driver in every God." -- Blayne Horner _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
