How do I use '~' (tilde) in the context of paths?

Question

I\'m a web application development noob. I have a function that opens a file and reads it. Unfortunately, the directory structures between the test and production servers di

Answer 1

If you are using pathlib for filenames then you can use on both Windows and Linux (I came here for a windows answer):

python from pathlib import Path p = Path('~').expanduser() print(p)