Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
FWIW, some history: The $HOME lookup was in Guido's original 1998-12-22 patch:
if not file:
file = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], ".netrc")
The lookup was wrapped in try-except 4 years later to give a 'consistent error
message'.
Module ntpath dates back to 1994. Expanduser only used HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.
Guido added support for HOME in 1997. Support for USERPROFILE was added a
decade later.
Since the module is NOT marked 'Unix-only', I think it a bug to not use
os.path.expanduser. Larry, Ned, do either of you have an opinion on whether
the change should be made in current versions or only 3.7?
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