On 4/28/2021 1:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On UNIX-oid platforms (e.g. BSD, Linux, Mac), ~user/ should be
reasonably reliable, after all the shell does it. On Windows, only ~/
can be relied upon -- the rest is "best effort". I'd be okay with
deprecating ~user/ on Windows, but on UNIX-oid it should not be
deprecated IMO.
On all systems, IDLE uses expanduser('~') and expanduser(path). On Mac,
it uses
expanduser('~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist'). So I
presume deprecating ~something only on Windows should not affect IDLE.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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