New submission from flipchan <flipc...@riseup.net>:
"~/" being a shortcut to the current home directory on posix systems(bsd/linux). its not working with the build in open() function open: It works to get the path as a string: with open(str(Path.home())+'/.hey', wb') as minfil: minfil.write(nycklen) But not out of the box: with open('~/.hey', 'wb') as minfil: minfil.write(nycklen) However, "~/" is working with os.path modules: os.path.isfile("~/.hey") Tested with Python 3.6.8 ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 345743 nosy: flipchan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: "~/" not working with open() function in posix systems type: behavior versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37306> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com