From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:00:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: bpo-32601: Let test_expanduser use the same user if no others found. (GH-5246)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~1869
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bpo-32601: Let test_expanduser use the same user if no others found. (GH-5246)

This happens in the NixOS build sandbox, for example, where the only
other user is nobody with home directory /.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 53215550b4..d1a3fba2de 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -2142,6 +2142,9 @@ class PosixPathTest(_BasePathTest, unittest.TestCase):
             otherhome = pwdent.pw_dir.rstrip('/')
             if othername != username and otherhome:
                 break
+        else:
+            othername = username
+            otherhome = userhome
 
         p1 = P('~/Documents')
         p2 = P('~' + username + '/Documents')