How to set the home folder?

[buhtz]

Can I set the "home" folder $HOME on the faked filesystem?

Currently pathlib.Path('~').resolve() does result in '/~`.

[mrbean-bremen]

Hm, I'm not quite sure about the correct behavior. Testing this under Windows and under WSL actually gives the cwd + "~", while Path.home() correctly returns the home directory.
EDIT: I checked this also under native Linux, and calling pathlib.Path('~').resolve() has the same result: cwd + "~". So, setting $HOME would not change anything both in the real and the fake filesystem for that call.

[mrbean-bremen]

To clarify: as far as I can see, the fake filesystem in this case behaves exactly like the real filesystem: pathlib.Path('~').resolve() returns the current working directory with the tilde as the last path parameter. Changing $HOME does not change this outcome.
If you want to access the home directory via pathlib.Path, you have to use Path.home() instead.

[mrbean-bremen]

As for the original question, how to set the home directory: setting HOME (or USERPROFILE under Windows) shall indeed change the home directory, as given by pathlib.Path.home(), or by pathlib.Path("~").expanduser().