#5471: fix expanduser() for $HOME set to "/".
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+- Issue 5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
+
 - Issue 1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
 
 - Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.