What is the correct cross-platform way to get the home directory in Python?

You want to use os.path.expanduser.
This will ensure it works on all platforms:

from os.path import expanduser
home = expanduser("~")

If you’re on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home():

from pathlib import Path
home = str(Path.home())

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