get/put can not use ~ on Windows

[klahnakoski]

This command does not work on Windows; the command is invalid:

conn.put('~/my_data_file.txt',  '/home/ubuntu/data.txt')

It would be nice if it did work though

[SwampFalc]

'~' is a construct of bash: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html

Which means it is not even guaranteed to work on every Linux installation out there, so expecting it to work on Windows is a real stretch.

Also note, Windows paths use '' and not '/'.

Try this:
conn.put('%HOMEPATH%\my_data_file.txt', '/home/ubuntu/data.txt')

[klahnakoski]

Try this:
conn.put('%HOMEPATH%\my_data_file.txt', '/home/ubuntu/data.txt')

Yes, but that code will not work on my Linux machines.

Maybe I am asking for platform independent way to navigate a hierarchical filesystem:

• directory separator (/)
• path seperator (:)
• home directory (~)
• current directory (.)

There are other constants that would be nice, but I used rarely

• temporary data location
• application data location
• program location
• user documents location

[SwampFalc]

Remember that what fabric does is connect you straight to the machine. Whatever you try to do through Connection.run() or Connection.put(), needs to be aware of the machine it will run on.

Fabric does give YOU all the tools you need to build your own platform-agnostic tool. But the odds of finding such an abstraction layer already built for you are small. I mean, what if someone built such a thing but had decided to implement the Windows standard instead?

[jfklein13]

Agreeing with above, and adding that while it doesn't seem Fabric's job to do this, os.path.expanduser seems to do what you want: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser