Re: [Rest2web-develop] Use of tilde as HOME indicator in paths

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ti...>]

On 2006-08-27, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> wrote:
> Ok, but isn't a tilde also a valid part of a path name ? (I'm
> not Lunix user, so I don't know these things - but at least on
> Windoze it can be a valid part of a filename.)

Yes, which under Windows could be expanded to C:\documentblah
blah\user or whatever it is.

> Do you just mean (or particularly mean) in the config file ? How
> about if paths starting with a tilde were expanded ?

os.path.expanduser() only expands the tilde as first character,
as any other implementation. Knowing this you can prefix a local
file with `./' if it starts with tilde, though right know the
other alternative is using full paths, which wouldn't allow tilde
expansion anyway.