lesmana <lesm...@gmx.de> added the comment: yes the quotes prevented the tilde to be expanded by the shell. somehow i failed to check that. i also failed to check that there is $HOME. somehow i failed to see the forest because of the many trees (a german saying).
technically my original description is still a valid bug report (or feature request). but i understand that it wont be fixed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8920> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
