Globbing for PIPX_BIN_DIR

[beorn]

I set $PIPX_BIN_DIR to ~/bin and it created a directory called ~ in my home directory.

% pipx list                 
venvs are in /Users/bjorn/.local/pipx/venvs
binaries are exposed on your $PATH at /Users/bjorn/~/bin
   package pipsi 0.9, Python 3.7.2
    - pipsi

[rkennedy]

What's your shell, and how did you set PIPX_BIN_DIR?

If you use bash or zsh, either of the following should have caused the shell to expand the tilde expression, so pipx would have seen the full path and wouldn't need to do any special tilde expansion of its own:

PIPX_BIN_DIR=~/bin
export PIPX_BIN_DIR

export PIPX_BIN_DIR=~/bin

Did you perhaps quote the assignment, as in PIPX_BIN_DIR="~/bin"? Shells don't do tilde expansion in quotes, so you should remove the quotes in that case.

[beorn]

I'm using zsh, and I originally had export PIPX_BIN_DIR="~/bin" as you expected, but changed it to export PIPX_BIN_DIR="$HOME/bin" as tilde wasn't expanded. I could do it the way you recommend as well.

I have this exact syntax ("~/..") for other env vars (e.g., ssh) so I guess I was just expecting it to work. Not a big deal, but perhaps consider os.path.expanduser?

[gaborbernat]

PR welcome.