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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2019-03-12 22:15:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-03-12 22:15:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 8ef864d50fb847cf15d5717c0db04fd60fb13d8d (patch) | |
| tree | 8b17e48edc24ef4e6cc6421b160bbf75777f8e3b /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | f45813df52207ae870fda86475976a9b42857592 (diff) | |
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bpo-36264: Updates documentation for change to expanduser on Windows (GH-12294)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index ad86917..4adeded 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ now return ``False`` instead of raising :exc:`ValueError` or its subclasses characters or bytes unrepresentable at the OS level. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33721`.) +:func:`~os.path.expanduser` on Windows now prefers the :envvar:`USERPROFILE` +environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally set +for regular user accounts. + ncurses ------- @@ -672,6 +676,10 @@ Changes in the Python API :exc:`dbm.gnu.error` or :exc:`dbm.ndbm.error`) instead of :exc:`KeyError`. (Contributed by Xiang Zhang in :issue:`33106`.) +* :func:`~os.path.expanduser` on Windows now prefers the :envvar:`USERPROFILE` + environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally + set for regular user accounts. + CPython bytecode changes ------------------------ |