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.

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Senthil

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