FYI there was a patch for this in the past and it was rejected:
https://bugs.python.org/issue21301
Damian (he/him)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:04 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> +1 -- I would really like pathlib to be able to used for everything one
> would need to do with paths.
>
> -CHB
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:05 AM anthony.flury via Python-ideas <
> python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I know that *os.path* includes a function *expandvars(..)* which expands
>> any environment variables in a given path, but from looking at the
>> *pathlib* documentation It seems there is
>> no equivalent to *os.path.expandvars(..) on any class* in *pathlib*, and
>> the recommendation seems to be to use *pathlib* to do any and all path
>> manipulations, with the exception of expanding environment variables.
>>
>> It appears that the recommended *pathlib* compatible code to fully
>> convert any file path (which may have environment variables and or ~ or
>> ~user constructs) to a fully resolved absolute path is :
>>
>> import os.path
>>
>> import pathlib
>>
>> given_path = input('Provide the full path')
>>
>> abs_path =
>> pathlib.Path(os.path.expandvars(pathlib.Path(givenpath).expanduser())).resolve()
>>
>> It seems to me that *pathlib.Path* would benefit massively from an
>> *os.path.expandvars(..)* equivalent - so that the equivalent code could
>> be :
>>
>> import os.path
>>
>> import pathlib
>>
>> given_path = input('Provide the full path')
>>
>> abs_path = pathlib.Path(givenpath).expandvars().expanduser().resolve()
>>
>> I know the need to do this is likely to be a corner case, but even still
>> it continues dependency on *os.path* for those programs that need to
>> resolve environment variables in paths, and increases the cognitive load
>> for this operation, , and it seems like a missed feature in *pathlib*
>>
>> A change such as this shouldn't affect backwards compatibility.
>>
>> What do people think - have I missed something or is pathlib missing
>> something ?
>>
>>
>>
>> *Pathlib documentation *
>>
>> *https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#module-pathlib
>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#module-pathlib>*
>>
>>
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