How to test if two strings point to the same file or directory?

[Erik Max Francis]

Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> ~ is interpreted as "my home directory" by the shell, but when it's used 
> in a path, it has no special meaning. open('~/foo.txt') tries to open a 
> file called foo.txt in a subdirectory of the current directory called '~'.

That's what os.path.expanduser is for.

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