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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-01-06 21:13:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-01-06 21:13:10 (GMT) |
| commit | a4e700c040ad23a2ad47b6b7b4daeb1f331a5fae (patch) | |
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| parent | 7449231eca9867dcee73c8456a35764bd97127fc (diff) | |
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#16877: Add mention that shell-style path expansions are not automatic.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst index 22272a7..35d5e16 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ path names. Vice versa, using bytes objects cannot represent all file names on Windows (in the standard ``mbcs`` encoding), hence Windows applications should use string objects to access all files. +Unlike a unix shell, Python does not do any *automatic* path expansions. +Functions such as :func:`expanduser` and :func:`expandvars` can be invoked +explicitly when an application desires shell-like path expansion. (See also +the :mod:`glob` module.) + .. note:: All of these functions accept either only bytes or only string objects as |