[issue19776] Provide expanduser() on Path objects
Antoine Pietri
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 28 05:42:48 CEST 2014
Antoine Pietri added the comment:
> I think that `absolute` method should call `expanduser` and `expandvars` (do you plan to include it?) automatically. This should be optional (via default arguments: `expanduser=True, expandvars=True`.
I think it shouldn't. (Or shouldn't be set to True by default anyway).
absolute() method resolves symlinks, and it would make no sense to expand tildes and vars, which are purely a "shell syntax".
. and .. are real things in the filesystem, ~ is just a notation commonly used (since it's in the SCL spec), but it's not *part* of the path, that's why you can totally have a valid ~ file.
Making absolute() expand tildes would be illogic, unintuitive and unpythonic.
(+1 for the .expanduser() patch though, I went here after searching for this feature in the docs).
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nosy: +seirl
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