Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment:

There seems to be some confusion about the macpath.py module.  I'm not sure why 
it even exists in Python 3.  Note it has to do with obsolete Classic 
MacOS-style paths (colon-separated paths) which are available on Mac OS X only 
through deprecated Carbon interfaces.  I'm not even sure that those style paths 
do support unicode.  More importantly, the underlying Carbon interfaces that 
macpath.py uses were removed for Python 3.  AFAIK, virtually nothing on OS X 
uses these style paths anymore and, with the removal of all the old Mac Carbon 
support in Python 3, I don't think there is any Python module that can use 
these paths other than macpath.  I think this module should be marked for 
deprecation and removed.  There is no reason to modify it nor add a NEWS note, 
even for 2.7.

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nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren

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