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-rw-r--r--Lib/posixpath.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_posixpath.py5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 6eb45fd..0ec430d 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ def expanduser(path):
except KeyError:
return path
userhome = pwent.pw_dir
- userhome = userhome.rstrip('/')
+ userhome = userhome.rstrip('/') or userhome
return userhome + path[i:]
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
index 46ac067..e6f750a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ class PosixPathTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~root/"), basestring))
self.assert_(isinstance(posixpath.expanduser("~foo/"), basestring))
+ orig_home = os.environ['HOME']
+ os.environ['HOME'] = '/'
+ self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("~"), "/")
+ os.environ['HOME'] = orig_home
+
self.assertRaises(TypeError, posixpath.expanduser)
def test_expandvars(self):