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| author | Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-04-24 13:52:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-04-24 13:52:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 59c522f9650c22dc986debce483b83a4ffc6dc0d (patch) | |
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gh-44123: Add note on relative path for os.exec* (GH-93826)
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 7bb501c..50e951c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -3919,7 +3919,8 @@ to be ignored. the :envvar:`PATH` variable. The other variants, :func:`execl`, :func:`execle`, :func:`execv`, and :func:`execve`, will not use the :envvar:`PATH` variable to locate the executable; *path* must contain an appropriate absolute or relative - path. + path. Relative paths must include at least one slash, even on Windows, as + plain names will not be resolved. For :func:`execle`, :func:`execlpe`, :func:`execve`, and :func:`execvpe` (note that these all end in "e"), the *env* parameter must be a mapping which is |