Fix removal of realpath call

mistaken copy/paste from notebook
jupyter · Sep 19, 2019 · 10196a3 · 10196a3
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diff --git a/jupyter_core/paths.py b/jupyter_core/paths.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ def get_home_dir():
     homedir = os.path.expanduser('~')
     # Next line will make things work even when /home/ is a symlink to
     # /usr/home as it is on FreeBSD, for example
-    home = py3compat.str_to_unicode(os.path.expanduser('~'), encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()) 
+    homedir = os.path.realpath(homedir)
+    homedir = py3compat.str_to_unicode(homedir, encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()) 
     return homedir
 
 _dtemps = {}