[issue37255] Pathlib: Add an expandUserPath method or argument

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[issue37255] Pathlib: Add an expandUserPath method or argument

Andrea Moro added the comment: I have completely missed it. Thanks for flagging it. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue37255] Pathlib: Add an expandUserPath method or argument

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: There is expanduser : https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.expanduser. os.path.expanduser also accepts a path like object. Is this report different from these two functions? -- nosy: +xtreak ___

[issue37255] Pathlib: Add an expandUserPath method or argument

New submission from Andrea Moro : Assuming the given path contains a '~' character, it would be nice to have a function to expand the given path so any further calls to an .exists doesn't fail. A prototype of the function could be # Expand the home path in *ix based systems if any