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
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
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.
