[New-bugs-announce] [issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

[Tim Hoffmann]

New submission from Tim Hoffmann <tim.hoffmann at posteo.de>:

Path.home() may fail un
(https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/17707#issuecomment-647180252).

1. I think the raised key error is too low-level, and it should be something else; what exactly t.b.d.
2. The documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.home) should specify what happens in case of failure.
3. The documentation links to https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser, but that's not correct. _PosixFlavor.gethomedir() implements it's own user lookup, which is slightly different from os.path.expanduser()

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 372116
nosy: timhoffm
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Error handling and documentation of Path.home()
type: behavior

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