From: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:15:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added a note about the inability to specify a pathname to a non-existing
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4653
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d37f75b88a5a861912a18f47ea993a861fb167fe;p=python

Added a note about the inability to specify a pathname to a non-existing
file in unix-Python.
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diff --git a/Doc/mac/libmacfs.tex b/Doc/mac/libmacfs.tex
index 36610e8d3a..fcb342cd1a 100644
--- a/Doc/mac/libmacfs.tex
+++ b/Doc/mac/libmacfs.tex
@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@ Whenever a function or method expects a \var{file} argument, this
 argument can be one of three things:\ (1) a full or partial Macintosh
 pathname, (2) an \pytype{FSSpec} object or (3) a 3-tuple
 \code{(\var{wdRefNum}, \var{parID}, \var{name})} as described in
-\citetitle{Inside Macintosh:\ Files}. A description of aliases and the
+\citetitle{Inside Macintosh:\ Files}. An \pytype{FSSpec} can point to
+a non-existing file, as long as the folder containing the file exists.
+Under MacPython the same is true for a pathname, but not under unix-Pyton
+because of the way pathnames and FSRefs works. See Apple's documentation
+for details.
+
+A description of aliases and the
 Standard File package can also be found there.
 
 \note{A module, \refmodule{macfsn}, is auto-imported to replace