Ian Shields added the comment:
I think that's an excellent resolution to the problem. Thank you.
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Ian Shields added the comment:
David, Tilde expansion is different to globbing. Globbing in Python doesn't
automatically do tilde expansion either.
>>> glob.glob("~")
[]
Looking at the documentation, I don't think it would be practical to add
documentation to e
Ian Shields added the comment:
Oddity may be in the eye of the beholder. I've been programming and scripting
for about 40 years, including several *IX shells and many other systems. I'm
relatively new to Python. Mostly the results of doing things in Python are what
I expect.
Ian Shields added the comment:
Regarding last comment. I had missed the comment in documentation fo
os.path.join "Join one or more path components intelligently. If any component
is an absolute path, all previous components (on Windows, including the
previous drive letter, if there wa
New submission from Ian Shields:
Filespecs that start with ~ are not properly handled by os.path.realpath or
os.path.abspath (and maybe other functions). Following console output from
Fedora 17 using Puthon 3.2 illustrates the issue. Similar issue in 2.7
[ian@attic4 developerworks]$ cd ..
[ian
