Commit a4e700c0 authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

#16877: Add mention that shell-style path expansions are not automatic.

parent 7449231e
......@@ -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
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