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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1994-04-21 10:32:28 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1994-04-21 10:32:28 (GMT)
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Documented new built-in function vars().
Documented new formatting features: %s takes any type, and '%(key)format' % dictionary. Documented posixpath.expandvars().
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@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ the built-in module \code{pwd}. If the expansion fails, or if the
path does not begin with a tilde, the path is returned unchanged.
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{expandvars}{p}
+Return the argument with environment variables expanded. Substrings
+of the form \samp{\$\var{name}} or \samp{\$\{\var{name}\}} are
+replaced by the value of environment variable \var{name}. Malformed
+variable names and references to non-existing variables are left
+unchanged.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{funcdesc}{isabs}{p}
Return true if \var{p} is an absolute pathname (begins with a slash).
\end{funcdesc}