By default, the wineprefix passed to WineGetKeys is "". Unfortunately,
os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars("")))
returns the path to the working directory, which depends on the
directory from which calibre was invoked. Hence under current
behaviour the wineprefix becomes that path, no longer being the empty
string. This means that the `cmdline` that's run is always
`WINEPREFIX=/some/path/ wine python.exe [...]`, rather than `wine
python.exe [...]` even under default conditions, when the wineprefix
hasn't been changed. Unless the user is improbably lucky and invokes
calibre from ~/.wine/ (the default wineprefix), this causes automatic
retrieval of the keys to always fail.
The bug was introduced in f2190a6755.
Checking for "" allows for correct behaviour in the default case,
while keeping the nice behaviour of expanding `~`.