Exception if HOME is not an existing path #1640
Description
how did you install flake8?
$ pip install flake8unmodified output of flake8 --bug-report
{
"platform": {
"python_implementation": "CPython",
"python_version": "3.9.13",
"system": "Linux"
},
"plugins": [
{
"plugin": "mccabe",
"version": "0.7.0"
},
{
"plugin": "pycodestyle",
"version": "2.9.0"
},
{
"plugin": "pyflakes",
"version": "2.5.0"
}
],
"version": "5.0.1"
}describe the problem
what I expected to happen
flake8 should not raise an exception if $HOME points to an invalid directory
For example, when running as the nobody user in a Debian-based Docker image, and $HOME points to /nonexistent.
commands ran
# sudo -u nobody flake8
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/flake8", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/main/cli.py", line 22, in main
app.run(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/main/application.py", line 336, in run
self._run(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/main/application.py", line 324, in _run
self.initialize(argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/main/application.py", line 296, in initialize
cfg, cfg_dir = config.load_config(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/options/config.py", line 73, in load_config
config = _find_config_file(pwd)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/options/config.py", line 26, in _find_config_file
home_stat = _stat_key(home) if home != "~" else None
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/flake8/options/config.py", line 19, in _stat_key
st = os.stat(s)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/nonexistent'