Merge pull request pypa/distutils#278 from cj81499/handle-failure-to-find-user-home

handle failures to find a user home directory

Author: jaraco

distutils/dist.py

@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ def _gen_paths(self):
         prefix = '.' * (os.name == 'posix')
         filename = prefix + 'pydistutils.cfg'
         if self.want_user_cfg:
-            yield pathlib.Path('~').expanduser() / filename
+            with contextlib.suppress(RuntimeError):
+                yield pathlib.Path('~').expanduser() / filename
 
         # All platforms support local setup.cfg
         yield pathlib.Path('setup.cfg')