#17809: fix a test failure in test_expanduser when $HOME has a trailing /. Patch by Kubilay Kocak.

Lib/test/test_posixpath.py

@@ -318,7 +318,8 @@ class PosixPathTest(unittest.TestCase):
                 # expanduser should fall back to using the password database
                 del env['HOME']
                 home = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir
-                self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("~"), home)
+                # $HOME can end with a trailing /, so strip it (see #17809)
+                self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("~"), home.rstrip("/"))
 
     def test_normpath(self):
         self.assertEqual(posixpath.normpath(""), ".")

Misc/ACKS

@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ Kim Knapp
 Lenny Kneler
 Pat Knight
 Jeff Knupp
+Kubilay Kocak
 Greg Kochanski
 Damon Kohler
 Marko Kohtala