Issue #19777: Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects.

Contributed by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 6244932482..dd2ccba1a6 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1008,6 +1008,13 @@ class Path(PurePath):
         """
         return cls(os.getcwd())
 
+    @classmethod
+    def home(cls):
+        """Return a new path pointing to the user's home directory (as
+        returned by os.path.expanduser('~')).
+        """
+        return cls(cls()._flavour.gethomedir(None))
+
     def samefile(self, other_path):
         """Return whether `other_file` is the same or not as this file.
         (as returned by os.path.samefile(file, other_file)).