Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Only Path.expanduser() special cases tilde as a POSIX shell would. Otherwise 
"~" is not a reserved filename character in POSIX. Path('~') is a file named 
"~" that's relative to the current working directory. By coincidence the 
working directory is the user's home directory in your example.

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nosy: +eryksun
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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