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diff --git a/Lib/dospath.py b/Lib/dospath.py
index 1479e1b..770174f 100644
--- a/Lib/dospath.py
+++ b/Lib/dospath.py
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ import string
# backslashes and maps invalid consecutive characters to a single '_'.
# Other normalizations (such as optimizing '../' away) are not allowed
# (this is done by normpath).
+#
+# Amrit: Things that can be valid regular expressions cannot be normalized
+# away. (which is pretty much all special characters)
+#
+# I am assuming that at least these chars may be used:
+# [, ], |, *, +, ?
mapchar = '_'
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ def normcase(s):
res = res + os.sep
elif c == '.' and res[-1:] == os.sep:
res = res + mapchar + c
- elif ord(c) < 32 or c in ' "*+,:;<=>?[]|':
+ elif ord(c) < 32 or c in ' ",:;<=>':
if res[-1:] != mapchar:
res = res + mapchar
else: