From 59c522f9650c22dc986debce483b83a4ffc6dc0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 06:52:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-44123: Add note on relative path for os.exec* (GH-93826) Co-authored-by: Steve Dower --- Doc/library/os.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 7bb501c5946..50e951c631f 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