On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:05:32 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On UNIX-oid platforms (e.g. BSD, Linux, Mac), ~user/ should be reasonably > reliable, after all the shell does it. On Windows, only ~/ can be relied > upon -- the rest is "best effort". I'd be okay with deprecating ~user/ on > Windows, but on UNIX-oid it should not be deprecated IMO. > > (Spoken as an old UNIX nerd who's currently using Windows 10.)
Agreed with Guido. Best regards Antoine. > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 9:57 AM Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 05:44:06PM +0100, Barney Gale wrote: > > > From a bit of googling, Python seems to be an outlier in having a > > function to > > > retrieve another user’s home directory. > > > > > Any views on this? Is expanduser(‘~other’) fixable and worth fixing? If > > not, > > > should we deprecate this functionality? Or something else? > > > > +1 to deprecate this functionality. This does not seem to be common > > usecase to > > be present in stdlib, and reliablity across platform seems difficult. > > > > -- > > Senthil > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > > Message archived at > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/CGVRT4A7XUOEVWHZY3ZX32CABD7OKR2A/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/CVPSAHX2XJDX27I2PSASOTQF4MD6PX22/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
