From a4e700c040ad23a2ad47b6b7b4daeb1f331a5fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] #16877: Add mention that shell-style path expansions are not automatic. --- Doc/library/os.path.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst index 22272a79d40..35d5e160260 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