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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	christian.heimes, giampaolo.rodola, gregory.p.smith, izbyshev, vstinner
Date	2019-01-17.07:30:46
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Message-id	<1547710246.97.0.640796336892.issue35755@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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ntpath and macpath appear to have the same potential issue. They've basically had this defpath value forever. keep following it and you find a commit from 1994 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2979b01ff88ac4c5b316d9bf98edbaaaffac8e24 Changing them only alters behavior of users of os.defpath or in the (odd?) situation when the PATH environment variable is unset, anything using of shutil.which() or distutils.spawn.find_executabnle(), the only stdlib users of os.defpath.

ntpath and macpath appear to have the same potential issue.
They've basically had this defpath value forever.

keep following it and you find a commit from 1994 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2979b01ff88ac4c5b316d9bf98edbaaaffac8e24

Changing them only alters behavior of users of os.defpath or in the (odd?) situation when the PATH environment variable is unset, anything using of shutil.which() or distutils.spawn.find_executabnle(), the only stdlib users of os.defpath.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-01-17 07:30:48	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, vstinner, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, izbyshev
2019-01-17 07:30:46	gregory.p.smith	set	messageid: <1547710246.97.0.640796336892.issue35755@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2019-01-17 07:30:46	gregory.p.smith	create