Yury V. Zaytsev added the comment: Amusingly, it's also the case on BG/Q compute nodes. Only this morning, I cooked up the following patch:
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py +++ b/Lib/posixpath.py @@ -237,7 +237,11 @@ def expanduser(path): if i == 1: if 'HOME' not in os.environ: import pwd - userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir + try: + userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir + except KeyError: + import warnings + warnings.warn('Unable to auto-detect $HOME, export it or functionality such as user-installed modules will not work!', RuntimeWarning) else: userhome = os.environ['HOME'] else: I think it's a bit harsh to fail completely, but returning silently also doesn't sound like a good idea, so I decided to issue a warning instead; the wording should be probably tweaked by a native speaker of English though. What do you think? ---------- nosy: +zaytsev type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20164> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com