Bugs item #1749583, was opened at 2007-07-07 05:44
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Edward Diener (eldiener)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: expanduser("~") on Windows looks for HOME first
Initial Comment:
On Windows, using expanduser("~") the home directory is replaced either first
by the environment variable HOME or, if that is not found, by a combination of
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH."
But HOME is almost never the home directory for Windows, although it is under
Linux/Unix, only the combination of HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH is valid, which is
always set.
If MSYS is installed under Windows, where HOME must be set to the MSYS home
directory for a given user in order to emulate Linux/Unix, attempting to use
os.path.expanduser("~") will incorrectly return the MSYS home directory for a
given user rather than the Windows home directory for the logged in user. So I
think the os.path.expanduser("~") works incorrectly in this case and needs to
be fixed, else you are telling users never to use MSYS under Windows. There may
be other Linux/Unix emulation packages which can be installed under Windows,
and my guess is that if there is then the HOME environment variable gets set to
some user home directory under that emulation package, just like it does for
MSYS.
The correct order under Windows is to look for the environment variable
combination HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH first and only if that is not found ( very
unlikely ) should expanduser("~") look for the environment variable HOME.
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Comment By: Hasan Diwan (hdiwan650)
Date: 2007-07-07 12:08
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This has been fixed as of Rev 54419 in trunk, perhaps someone would be
kind enough to backport it?
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