Re: os.path.expanduser analogue

On 21/11/11 02:36, Ben Gamari wrote:

On the whole, the filepath package does an excellent job of providing basic path manipulation tools, one weakness is the inability to resolve "~/..." style POSIX paths. Python implements this with os.path.expanduser. Perhaps a similar function might be helpful in filepath?

On windows there are folders like %UserProfile% and %ProgramFiles%. There is a function in the API, ExpandEnvironmentStrings, for expanding them. I think it makes sense that, if a function that expands "~" is added to filepath, it should do also this expanding on windows. That also means that 'expandUser' is not the right name. Twan