List home directory without absolute path

python

Solution

You need to use the `os.path.expanduser()` function:

>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.expanduser('~')
'/home/username'

Problem

I'm having problem with listing home directory of current user without knowing absolute path to it. I've tried with the following, but it doesn't work: ``` [root@blackbox source]# python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 7 2011, 20:38:36) [GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.listdir('/root') ['python', '.bashrc', '.viminfo'] >>> os.listdir('~') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~' >>> ```

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