[ python-Bugs-1107258 ] os.pathsep is wrong on Mac OS X

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Bugs item #1107258, was opened at 2005-01-22 03:07
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Category: Macintosh
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mac-arena the Bored Zo (boredzo)
Assigned to: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Summary: os.pathsep is wrong on Mac OS X

Initial Comment:
I'm running Python 2.4 on Darwin 7.5 (Mac OS X 10.3.5).

os.path.pathsep should be returning '/', since that's what everything that 
works with paths (the rest of the path module, plus the file class, etc.) 
expects. and yet it returns ':'.

making this even stranger is the fact that repr(os.path) returns the path to 
posixpath.

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>Comment By: Mac-arena the Bored Zo (boredzo)
Date: 2005-02-02 22:01

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I wasn't suggesting that Darwin shouldn't use posixpath, I was wondering why it 
would be returning ':' for the path separator.

thanks for the explanation.

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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2005-01-22 11:03

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You are misunderstanding what os.path.pathsep is for.  It is the string 
that separates paths themselves, not parts of a path.  It's ':' because that 
is how you separate paths on Darwin and any UNIX platform (e.g., "/usr/
bin:/usr/local/bin".

And because Darwin is UNIX it uses posixpath.

Closing as invalid since the setting is right and is not even in the official 
docs so general usage is not supported.

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