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bpo-28334: fix netrc not working when $HOME is not set
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Expand Up @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ the Unix :program:`ftp` program and other FTP clients.
A :class:`~netrc.netrc` instance or subclass instance encapsulates data from a netrc
file. The initialization argument, if present, specifies the file to parse. If
no argument is given, the file :file:`.netrc` in the user's home directory --
as determined by :func:`os.path.expanduser` -- will be read.
as determined by :func:`os.path.expanduser` -- will be read. Otherwise,
a :exc:`FileNotFoundError` exception will be raised.
Parse errors will raise :exc:`NetrcParseError` with diagnostic
information including the file name, line number, and terminating token.
If no argument is specified on a POSIX system, the presence of passwords in
Expand All @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ the Unix :program:`ftp` program and other FTP clients.
.. versionchanged:: 3.4 Added the POSIX permission check.

.. versionchanged:: 3.7
Now uses :func:`os.path.expanduser` to find the location of the
:func:`os.path.expanduser` is used to find the location of the
:file:`.netrc` file when *file* is not passed as argument.


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