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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	Dimitri Merejkowsky, berker.peksag, terry.reedy
Date	2016年10月10日.23:33:19
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Message-id	<1476142399.99.0.185342852513.issue28334@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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FWIW, some history: The $HOME lookup was in Guido's original 1998年12月22日 patch: if not file: file = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], ".netrc") The lookup was wrapped in try-except 4 years later to give a 'consistent error message'. Module ntpath dates back to 1994. Expanduser only used HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH. Guido added support for HOME in 1997. Support for USERPROFILE was added a decade later. Since the module is NOT marked 'Unix-only', I think it a bug to not use os.path.expanduser. Larry, Ned, do either of you have an opinion on whether the change should be made in current versions or only 3.7?

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FWIW, some history: The $HOME lookup was in Guido's original 1998年12月22日 patch:
 if not file:
 file = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], ".netrc")
The lookup was wrapped in try-except 4 years later to give a 'consistent error message'.
Module ntpath dates back to 1994. Expanduser only used HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH. Guido added support for HOME in 1997. Support for USERPROFILE was added a decade later.
Since the module is NOT marked 'Unix-only', I think it a bug to not use os.path.expanduser. Larry, Ned, do either of you have an opinion on whether the change should be made in current versions or only 3.7?

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