This is definitely a bug. The implementation on both platforms seems to be a hack – a more correct implementation would be a great contribution. It should also be possible to map arbitrary user names to user IDs and user IDs to user metadata.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Sean Marshallsay <srm.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed the other day that calling expanduser on an empty string throws > a BoundsError when using a UNIX platform. Whether this is a bug or a > feature will probably depend entirely on who you ask. More importantly > though, in my eyes, doing the same thing on Windows returns an empty string > instead. This inconsistency definitely seems like a bug to me. > > In my eyes the UNIX implementation should be changed to check for a empty > string and return it but I was wondering what other people thought of this? >
