[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Łukasz Langa added the comment: Behavior is fixed in Python 3.10+. For Python 3.9 the docs are updated to list possible exceptions. Since this was reported with 3.9 in mind, I'm marking this one as wontfix. Thanks for picking this up, Andrei! ✨ 🍰 ✨ -- resolution: -> wont fix stage:

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Łukasz Langa added the comment: New changeset dc2e11ed5a5a8083db1d8b5e2396c9238999568c by andrei kulakov in branch '3.9': [3.9] bpo-41082: Add note on errors that may be raised by home() and expanduser() (GH-28186) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dc2e11ed5a5a8083db1d8b5e2396c92389995

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Łukasz Langa added the comment: Using `os.path.expanduser` is a functional change so it wasn't backported at the time to 3.9 and sure shouldn't be backported now. Going with a doc update is the right approach. -- nosy: +lukasz.langa ___ Python trac

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: I looked a bit more into this, it's been fixed in 3.10, in this PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18841 It wasn't backported to 3.9. I'm not quite sure if it's best to backport to 3.9 or fix via docs for 3.9. Just in case I've put up a small PR for

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Change by Andrei Kulakov : -- versions: +Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://m

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Change by Andrei Kulakov : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +26614 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28186 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: In current dev version (3.11), _PosixFlavor doesn't have gethomedir(), and instead os.path.expanduser() is used via _NormalAccessor(). So at least for the current dev version, the docs are accurate. -- nosy: +andrei.avk _

[issue41082] Error handling and documentation of Path.home()

New submission from Tim Hoffmann : Path.home() may fail un (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/17707#issuecomment-647180252). 1. I think the raised key error is too low-level, and it should be something else; what exactly t.b.d. 2. The documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/lib