Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
I suppose that on patrick's computeron his account (but not on admin account)
HOME is literal %userprofile%. It looks as just misconfiguration.
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The fact that Idle quits when there is a problem getting (or writing to) the
home directory is a design bug discussed in #8231. I do not see any other bug
with Idle. So I am closing this as a duplicate.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: test needed
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
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On my updated win7, I get with 3.4.1
import os.path
userDir = os.path.expanduser('~')
userDir
