gh-118119: Re-use sep in posixpath.expanduser() (GH-118120)

nineteendo · web-flow · commit 6f768b71bab8 · 2024-05-07T12:50:40.000+02:00
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -298,11 +298,8 @@ def expanduser(path):
         return path
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
         userhome = os.fsencode(userhome)
-        root = b'/'
-    else:
-        root = '/'
-    userhome = userhome.rstrip(root)
-    return (userhome + path[i:]) or root
+    userhome = userhome.rstrip(sep)
+    return (userhome + path[i:]) or sep
 
 
 # Expand paths containing shell variable substitutions.
