Charles-François Natali added the comment: > There is a question. What should pathlib's expanduser() do in case > when user directory can't be determined (or user does not exist)? > Perhaps unlike to os.path.expanduser() it should raise an exception > (as in many other pathlib's methods).
Let's see what POSIX says: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01 """ If the system does not recognize the login name, the results are undefined. """ Helpful, isn't it ;-) Behaving like os.path.expanduser() would have the advantage of consistency (which is in turn consistent with Unix shells), OTOH, it seems wrong to just return the unexpanded form: for example, if someone calls expanduser('~apache') and there's apache user, returning '~apache' could be dangerous if there was an '~apache' folder in the CWD. So I think it would be better to raise an exception. ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19776> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
