[New-bugs-announce] [issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

[lesmana]

New submission from lesmana <lesmana at gmx.de>:

for example, this should be legal:
PYTHONSTARTUP="~/.pythonrc.py"

workaround (in bash)
PYTHONSTARTUP=$(echo ~)"/.pythonrc.py"

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messages: 107198
nosy: lesmana
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"
type: feature request

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