[New-bugs-announce] [issue40271] Allow shell like paths in

[Gavin D'souza]

New submission from Gavin D'souza <gavin18d at gmail.com>:

Related library: zipfile

Since zipfile allows relative dotted paths too, should shell-like paths, specifically with ~ (tilde) be allowed too?

This feels like unexpected behaviour and confusing for users as method "is_zipfile" returns False in case path doesn't exist as well. So, zipfile.is_zipfile("~/incorrect/path/to/zip") as well as zipfile.is_zipfile("~/path/to/zip") will return False

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 366297
nosy: gavin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow shell like paths in
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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