[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: This is fixed and online docs will reflect it when they get built in their next build cycle. Thanks for the report. -- nosy: +orsenthil resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e6e35ff744fe by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.5': issue27045 - Use backslash in windows path to script file. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e6e35ff744fe New changeset 2173063cbae8 by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default': merge from 3.5

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden added the comment: The key point here is that if I run the example as given on my Win 8.1 box, it doesn't work. (The venv I'm using is called nw0). d:\tim\.venvs>dir nw0\Scripts\activate.bat Volume in drive D is New Volume Volume Serial Number is 2639-22DA Directory of

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Tim Peters
Tim Peters added the comment: All versions of cmd.exe want backslashes in paths for the commands implemented _by_ cmd.exe - those interpret a forward slash as indicating an option. For example, here on Win10 Pro: C:\WINDOWS\system32>dir c:\Windows\System32\xwreg.dll Volume in drive C is OS

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Zachary Ware
Changes by Zachary Ware : -- assignee: -> docs@python resolution: not a bug -> stage: resolved -> needs patch status: closed -> open versions: +Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden added the comment: I haven't tested everywhere but some versions of Windows don't in fact accept forward slashes on the cmd.exe command line. Suggest changing to backslashes as there's no reason to do otherwise. -- nosy: +tim.golden ___

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-17 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Since windows users expect them to be backslahes, though, what's the motivation for using forward slashes instead? -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-16 Thread Emanuel Barry
Emanuel Barry added the comment: Forward slashes work fine in Windows, for both the command line and PowerShell. Windows always displays backslahes, but accepts either (as well as any combination of both) in paths. -- assignee: docs@python -> nosy: +ebarry resolution: -> not a bug

[issue27045] Forward slashes in Windows paths

2016-05-16 Thread Ed Doxtator
New submission from Ed Doxtator: In the documentation for pyvenv (https://docs.python.org/dev/library/venv.html), there is a table that shows by platform the command required to activate a virtual environment by OS. For Windows, the values are: PlatformShell Command to