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Author westley.martinez
Recipients fgracia, loewis, python-dev, roger.serwy, terry.reedy, westley.martinez
Date 2013-08-30.06:46:08
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Terry J. Reedy <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
>
> This patch (I suspect it is this one) disabled the use of '/' in filenames on windows when using filename completion.
>
> 'c:\   <wait, tab, ^space bring up box> in 3.2.3 and 3.3.0>
> (If there is no 'r' prefix, it really should require '\\' to be safe.)

+1 for requiring \\.

I'll test this tomorrow and report back the behaviour.  On Linux it
seems that the window only pops up when you press tab.  I think
behaviour should be as identical on all platforms as possible.
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