[issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

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[issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

lesmana added the comment: yes the quotes prevented the tilde to be expanded by the shell. somehow i failed to check that. i also failed to check that there is $HOME. somehow i failed to see the forest because of the many trees (a german saying). technically my original description is still a

[issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

Éric Araujo added the comment: The shell does not interpret tildes in quotes, but it does interpret variables, so both your examples make sense. Does removing the quotes fix your problem? -- nosy: +merwok status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Here it works with : PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/.pythonrc" ./python -- components: +Interpreter Core nosy: +flox resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending versions: +Python 2.7 ___ Pyt

[issue8920] PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~"

New submission from lesmana : for example, this should be legal: PYTHONSTARTUP="~/.pythonrc.py" workaround (in bash) PYTHONSTARTUP=$(echo ~)"/.pythonrc.py" -- messages: 107198 nosy: lesmana priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PYTHONSTARTUP should expand "~" type: featu