Added handling for undetermined home directory #30454
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PR summary
If the home directory cannot be created/written to, matplotlib defaults to creating a temporary folder for its caching/config. However, previously, if the home directory could not be determined, a RunTimeError was raised. Now, this pr includes code to handle the RunTimeError from
Path.home()
so that Matplotlib will default to using a temp directory for its cache. It will also throw a warning to describe the issue.On Windows the following now leads to a temporary cache directory:
On Linux the following now leads to a temporary cache directory, if the user is not a part of the password database:
closes #30449
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