realpath should expand tilde to homedir

[infusion]

Hi,

I was wondering if I could translate a path beginning with a tilde to the users home path by using realpath. The docs say, there is os.homedir(), but it would be cool if realpath could do this without having to replace "~" with the output of os.homedir(). Do you think this would be a good extension? I've seen, PHP has this behavior as well.

Thanks

[mscdex]

That might be fine for *nix users, but it would probably be a rude awakening for Windows users.

[cjihrig]

Duplicate of #684.

[jbergstroem]

Closing as duplicate since the old issue seems to cover your use case. Feel free to ping for reopen if that's not the case.