Hmmm... looking at how bash handles this it doesn't seem too difficult, I might give it a go over the weekend. I have no idea how to handle it on Windows though.
On Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:06:07 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > 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....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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? >> > >
