I can't see any logical reason for that. There should not be such a hack to avoid "magical bugs" when PATH is empty.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Yinon Ehrlich <yinon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > just saw that os.defpath for Windows is defined as > Lib/ntpath.py:30:defpath = '.;C:\\bin' > > Most Windows machines I saw has no c:\bin directory. > > Any reason why it was defined this way ? > Thanks, > Yinon > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/techtonik%40gmail.com > -- --anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com