How does bash handle it? On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Sean Marshallsay <srm.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> >> 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? >>> >> >>
