X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/1d3fd83f473663fce3e0a10303473a38d80cc3d0..abc36f0474141930338eef35e2444365fab932b6:/youtube_dl/utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d293c74..2340bc3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ from .compat import (
     compat_basestring,
     compat_chr,
     compat_etree_fromstring,
+    compat_expanduser,
     compat_html_entities,
     compat_html_entities_html5,
     compat_http_client,
@@ -539,6 +540,11 @@ def sanitized_Request(url, *args, **kwargs):
     return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
 
 
+def expand_path(s):
+    """Expand shell variables and ~"""
+    return os.path.expandvars(compat_expanduser(s))
+
+
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []