Veronica Olsen added the comment:
> AFAIK, tilde expansion is entirely up to your shell rather than Python
Yes, I am uncertain what exactly is going on here. Whatever ends up in the
sys.pycache_prefix variable is different with the same environment variable
setting on the two systems.
Veronica Olsen added the comment:
Correction: The pycache is in fact redirected to the new '~' folder.
In any case, I tested a bit on Debian Bullseye (Python 3.8.6) and Ubuntu 20.04
(Python 3.8.5) and it seems ~ is not expanded in the environment variable
Debian. I'm a little
New submission from Veronica Olsen :
On Debian Bullseye (testing):
Setting
export PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=~/.pycache
has previously worked. With Python 3.8.6, this still works in practice, when
running python code (the pycache is still redirected), but during
initialisation, the python3
