ThurnerRupert <rupert.thur...@credit-suisse.com> added the comment: the parent process would be "sh.exe" in the msys case, contrary to the windows standard cmd.exe, explorer.exe, system, system idle process, ...
an example is the mercurial "status" command, see http://selenic.com/repo/index.cgi/hg/file/8bf6eb68ddaf/mercurial/comman ds.py#l2752 which uses http://selenic.com/repo/index.cgi/hg/file/8bf6eb68ddaf/mercurial/util.p y#l210 (pathto, ), and normpath = os.path.normcase(path). which does at the end: sys.stdout.write(str(a)) when string the string goes out on stdout or stderr it is not known any more it was a file path. hmm. ---------- _______________________________________ 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