Issue 38883: Path.home() should ignore HOME env var like os.path.expanduser() [proxy]

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Issue38883

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Title:	Path.home() should ignore HOME env var like os.path.expanduser()
Type:		Stage:	resolved
Components:	Library (Lib)	Versions:	Python 3.9, Python 3.8

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Status:	closed	Resolution:	fixed
Dependencies:		Superseder:
Assigned To:		Nosy List:	Anthony Sottile, BTaskaya, brett.cannon, lazka, miss-islington, steve.dower
Priority:	normal	Keywords:	patch

Created on 2019-11-21 18:45 by lazka, last changed 2020-01-28 09:59 by miss-islington. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg357196 - (view)	Author: Christoph Reiter (lazka) *	Date: 2019-11-21 18:45
In issue36264 os.path.expanduser() was changed to no longer use the HOME environment variable on Windows. There are two more ways in the stdlib to get the user directory, pathlib.Path.home() and pathlib.Path.expanduser() which internally use gethomedir() which still uses the HOME environment variable: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0aca3a3a1e68b4ca2d334ab5255dfc267719096e/Lib/pathlib.py#L255 Since they are documented to work the same as os.path.expanduser() they should be changed to no longer use HOME as well.
msg360847 - (view)	Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) *	Date: 2020-01-28 09:42
New changeset c45a2aa9e255b5c7c211faa79f6b23895b64ab27 by Steve Dower (Christoph Reiter) in branch 'master': bpo-38883: Don't use POSIX `$HOME` in `pathlib.Path.home/expanduser` on Windows (GH-17961) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c45a2aa9e255b5c7c211faa79f6b23895b64ab27
msg360852 - (view)	Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) *	Date: 2020-01-28 09:59
Thanks, Christoph!
msg360854 - (view)	Author: miss-islington (miss-islington)	Date: 2020-01-28 09:59
New changeset 595b516965ee88b817dc1b3d7713e1f3f263634d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-38883: Don't use POSIX `$HOME` in `pathlib.Path.home/expanduser` on Windows (GH-17961) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/595b516965ee88b817dc1b3d7713e1f3f263634d

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2020-01-28 09:59:47	miss-islington	set	nosy: + miss-islington messages: + msg360854
2020-01-28 09:59:05	steve.dower	set	status: open -> closed resolution: fixed messages: + msg360852 stage: patch review -> resolved
2020-01-28 09:42:13	miss-islington	set	pull_requests: + pull_request17608
2020-01-28 09:42:11	steve.dower	set	messages: + msg360847
2020-01-12 09:23:37	lazka	set	keywords: + patch stage: patch review pull_requests: + pull_request17369
2019-11-21 21:00:37	brett.cannon	set	nosy: + brett.cannon
2019-11-21 18:54:56	Anthony Sottile	set	nosy: + Anthony Sottile
2019-11-21 18:54:50	BTaskaya	set	versions: + Python 3.8
2019-11-21 18:52:36	BTaskaya	set	nosy: + steve.dower, BTaskaya versions: + Python 3.9, - Python 3.8
2019-11-21 18:45:12	lazka	create