Getting Home Directory with pathlib

There is method expanduser():

p = PosixPath('~/films/Monty Python')
p.expanduser()
PosixPath('/home/eric/films/Monty Python')

As of python-3.5, there is pathlib.Path.home(), which improves the situation somewhat.

The result on Windows is

>>>pathlib.Path.home()
WindowsPath('C:/Users/username')

and on Linux

>>>pathlib.Path.home()
PosixPath('/home/username')

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