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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst index 13bda9b..36a61a5 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 |