Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: I'm not sure Python *can* change its behaviour in this case. How would it know which shell (cmd or msys/cygwin) it was launched from?
Also, even if it could figure that out, how would it know whether a particular filename "stringification" with os.path.join() was intended for display to the user or to be passed to a Windows API? ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6208> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com