On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 05:44:06PM +0100, Barney Gale wrote: > From a bit of googling, Python seems to be an outlier in having a function to > retrieve another user’s home directory.
> Any views on this? Is expanduser(‘~other’) fixable and worth fixing? If not, > should we deprecate this functionality? Or something else? +1 to deprecate this functionality. This does not seem to be common usecase to be present in stdlib, and reliablity across platform seems difficult. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CGVRT4A7XUOEVWHZY3ZX32CABD7OKR2A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/