support expanduser() for dotenv_path

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Feature
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Clearly specified
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Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

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Start in src/dotenv/main.py around line 45 and inspect how dotenv_path is assigned. Confirm the desired behavior for a path beginning with ~, then run the existing test suite to verify that home-directory expansion works without breaking other dotenv_path handling.

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Description

It would be great if one can place API_KEYs in one .env file outside github repositories,
currently dotenv_path argument does not support "~" as home_path.

Please consider improving this line at https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/blob/main/src/dotenv/main.py#L45
as

self.dotenv_path: Optional[StrPath] = Path(dotenv_path).expanduser()

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