Issue #19776: Add a expanduser() method on Path objects.

Patch by Serhiy.

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 1622cbb92f..d8ec1182ad 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -221,6 +221,36 @@ class _WindowsFlavour(_Flavour):
             # It's a path on a network drive => 'file://host/share/a/b'
             return 'file:' + urlquote_from_bytes(path.as_posix().encode('utf-8'))
 
+    def gethomedir(self, username):
+        if 'HOME' in os.environ:
+            userhome = os.environ['HOME']
+        elif 'USERPROFILE' in os.environ:
+            userhome = os.environ['USERPROFILE']
+        elif 'HOMEPATH' in os.environ:
+                try:
+                    drv = os.environ['HOMEDRIVE']
+                except KeyError:
+                    drv = ''
+                userhome = drv + os.environ['HOMEPATH']
+        else:
+            raise RuntimeError("Can't determine home directory")
+
+        if username:
+            # Try to guess user home directory.  By default all users
+            # directories are located in the same place and are named by
+            # corresponding usernames.  If current user home directory points
+            # to nonstandard place, this guess is likely wrong.
+            if os.environ['USERNAME'] != username:
+                drv, root, parts = self.parse_parts((userhome,))
+                if parts[-1] != os.environ['USERNAME']:
+                    raise RuntimeError("Can't determine home directory "
+                                       "for %r" % username)
+                parts[-1] = username
+                if drv or root:
+                    userhome = drv + root + self.join(parts[1:])
+                else:
+                    userhome = self.join(parts)
+        return userhome
 
 class _PosixFlavour(_Flavour):
     sep = '/'
@@ -304,6 +334,21 @@ class _PosixFlavour(_Flavour):
         bpath = bytes(path)
         return 'file://' + urlquote_from_bytes(bpath)
 
+    def gethomedir(self, username):
+        if not username:
+            try:
+                return os.environ['HOME']
+            except KeyError:
+                import pwd
+                return pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir
+        else:
+            import pwd
+            try:
+                return pwd.getpwnam(username).pw_dir
+            except KeyError:
+                raise RuntimeError("Can't determine home directory "
+                                   "for %r" % username)
+
 
 _windows_flavour = _WindowsFlavour()
 _posix_flavour = _PosixFlavour()
@@ -1333,6 +1378,17 @@ class Path(PurePath):
             # (see https://bitbucket.org/pitrou/pathlib/issue/12/)
             return False
 
+    def expanduser(self):
+        """ Return a new path with expanded ~ and ~user constructs
+        (as returned by os.path.expanduser)
+        """
+        if (not (self._drv or self._root) and
+            self._parts and self._parts[0][:1] == '~'):
+            homedir = self._flavour.gethomedir(self._parts[0][1:])
+            return self._from_parts([homedir] + self._parts[1:])
+
+        return self
+
 
 class PosixPath(Path, PurePosixPath):
     __slots__ = ()