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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 |