Summary

os.expandTilde may support "~user", in addition to path beginning with "~"

Description

Python's os.path.expanduser support both '~' and '~user'

And there's a TODO in source code of os.expandTilde:

    # TODO: handle `~bob` and `~bob/` which means home of bob

Also, if ~user cannot be replaced, the path will be returned AS-IS.

Alternatives

No response

Examples

import std/os
echo os.expandTilde("~root")

Backwards Compatibility

This is an expansion to the previous procedure.

A few path that didn't be expanded will be.

Links

https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser

A todo in issue #8177 make extractFilename("~bob") work