[Tutor] can't install

[eryksun]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tobias M. <tm at tobix.eu> wrote:
> Yes, '~' is your home directory. You can actually use this in your
> shell instead of typing the whole path.

The tilde shortcut is a C shell legacy inspired by the 1970s ADM-3A
terminal, which had "Home" and tilde on the same key. Python has
os.path.expanduser('~'), which also works on Windows even though using
tilde like this isn't a Windows convention.