28 Apr
2021
28 Apr
'21
4:53 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 05:44:06PM +0100, Barney Gale wrote:
From a bit of googling, Python seems to be an outlier in having a function to retrieve another user’s home directory.
Any views on this? Is expanduser(‘~other’) fixable and worth fixing? If not, should we deprecate this functionality? Or something else?
+1 to deprecate this functionality. This does not seem to be common usecase to be present in stdlib, and reliablity across platform seems difficult. -- Senthil