Message 357196 - Python tracker

Message357196

Author	lazka
Recipients	lazka
Date	2019-11-21.18:45:11
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In issue36264 os.path.expanduser() was changed to no longer use the HOME environment variable on Windows. There are two more ways in the stdlib to get the user directory, pathlib.Path.home() and pathlib.Path.expanduser() which internally use gethomedir() which still uses the HOME environment variable: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0aca3a3a1e68b4ca2d334ab5255dfc267719096e/Lib/pathlib.py#L255 Since they are documented to work the same as os.path.expanduser() they should be changed to no longer use HOME as well.

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In issue36264 os.path.expanduser() was changed to no longer use the HOME environment variable on Windows.

There are two more ways in the stdlib to get the user directory, pathlib.Path.home() and pathlib.Path.expanduser() which internally use gethomedir() which still uses the HOME environment variable:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0aca3a3a1e68b4ca2d334ab5255dfc267719096e/Lib/pathlib.py#L255

Since they are documented to work the same as os.path.expanduser() they should be changed to no longer use HOME as well.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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