[issue38246] pathlib.resolve and .absolute leave trailing tilde in home expansion

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[issue38246] pathlib.resolve and .absolute leave trailing tilde in home expansion

Eryk Sun 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

[issue38246] pathlib.resolve and .absolute leave trailing tilde in home expansion

New submission from Infrasonics : `Path('~').resolve()` gives `PosixPath('/home/youruser/~')`. Same problem for `.absolute`, yet `.expanduser` works correctly. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 352954 nosy: Infrasonics priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: pathlib.r