[issue24690] find_executable should expand ~

R. David Murray added the comment: Agree with Eric. Use expanduser if you want the ~ expanded. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue24690] find_executable should expand ~

Eric V. Smith added the comment: You can use os.path.expanduser(). In general we leave decisions such as expanding user names and environment variables up to the caller, and we don't build them in to each function. Although I'm not sure why you'd want to pass a full path name to distutils.spa

[issue24690] find_executable should expand ~

New submission from Kyle Huey: It would be nice if find_executable("~/path/to/my/local/build/of/a/binary") would work. -- components: Distutils messages: 247176 nosy: Kyle Huey, dstufft, eric.araujo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: find_executable should expand ~ ve