[Pythonmac-SIG] Fixing the documentation...

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 20-apr-2006, at 11:02, has wrote:

> Ronald wrote:
>
>>>> Macpath deals with OS9/Carbon style paths (Volume:directory:file
>>>> instead of /Volume/directory/file).
>>>
>>> Don't know where you're seeing this; I've tried a few of the  
>>> functions and none work with HFS-style paths, only POSIX-style  
>>> paths.
>>
>>>>> macpath.join('foo', 'bar')
>> ':foo:bar'
>
> OK, so that has colons - obviously I managed only to try the ones  
> that didn't. :)
>
> That said, the actual result in the above example is wrong. It  
> should be 'foo:bar', since 'foo' is an absolute path (a leading  
> colon indicates a relative path, which is not the same):

Could you please file this as a bug at the python tracker over at  
sourceforge? Bugs that are not in the tracker are likely to stay bugs  
unless someone with checkin privileges runs into them and is annoyed  
enough to fix them.

Ronald