bpo-38883: Don't use POSIX `$HOME` in `pathlib.Path.home/expanduser` on Windows (GH-17961)

In bpo-36264 os.path.expanduser was changed to ignore HOME on Windows.

Path.expanduser/home still honored HOME despite being documented as behaving the same
as os.path.expanduser. This makes them also ignore HOME so that both implementations
behave the same way again.
(cherry picked from commit c45a2aa9e2)

Co-authored-by: Christoph Reiter <reiter.christoph@gmail.com>

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -253,9 +253,7 @@ class _WindowsFlavour(_Flavour):
             return 'file:' + urlquote_from_bytes(path.as_posix().encode('utf-8'))
 
     def gethomedir(self, username):
-        if 'HOME' in os.environ:
+        if 'USERPROFILE' in os.environ:
-            userhome = os.environ['HOME']
-        elif 'USERPROFILE' in os.environ:
             userhome = os.environ['USERPROFILE']
         elif 'HOMEPATH' in os.environ:
             try:

Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

@@ -1296,8 +1296,16 @@ class _BasePathTest(object):
         self.assertTrue(p.is_absolute())
 
     def test_home(self):
-        p = self.cls.home()
+        with support.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
-        self._test_home(p)
+            self._test_home(self.cls.home())
+
+            env.clear()
+            env['USERPROFILE'] = os.path.join(BASE, 'userprofile')
+            self._test_home(self.cls.home())
+
+            # bpo-38883: ignore `HOME` when set on windows
+            env['HOME'] = os.path.join(BASE, 'home')
+            self._test_home(self.cls.home())
 
     def test_samefile(self):
         fileA_path = os.path.join(BASE, 'fileA')
@@ -2348,12 +2356,6 @@ class WindowsPathTest(_BasePathTest, unittest.TestCase):
                 self.assertEqual(p5.expanduser(), p5)
                 self.assertEqual(p6.expanduser(), p6)
 
-            # Test the first lookup key in the env vars.
-            env['HOME'] = 'C:\\Users\\alice'
-            check()
-
-            # Test that HOMEPATH is available instead.
-            env.pop('HOME', None)
             env['HOMEPATH'] = 'C:\\Users\\alice'
             check()
 
@@ -2366,6 +2368,10 @@ class WindowsPathTest(_BasePathTest, unittest.TestCase):
             env['USERPROFILE'] = 'C:\\Users\\alice'
             check()
 
+            # bpo-38883: ignore `HOME` when set on windows
+            env['HOME'] = 'C:\\Users\\eve'
+            check()
+
 
 class CompatiblePathTest(unittest.TestCase):
     """

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-11-22-53-55.bpo-38883.X7FRaN.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.home()` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.expanduser()` on Windows
+now prefer :envvar:`USERPROFILE` and no longer use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not
+normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again behave like
+:func:`os.path.expanduser`, which was changed to ignore :envvar:`HOME` in 3.8,
+see :issue:`36264`.