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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d293c7498..2340bc306 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 = []