Re: Finding the "home" folder [Linux/Windows]

From: Mike C. Fletcher (mcfletch_at_rogers.com)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 17:06:39 -0500
To: python-list@python.org

There's some code in OpenGLContext to do something like this (though
it's getting the user's application-data directory, not their "home"
directory):

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pyopengl/OpenGLContext/browser/homedirectory.py?view=markup

You'll want to use one of the other shellcon.CSIDL_* constants and
something other than 'AppData' to get the "home" directory (whatever
that means) and will want to figure out something for Win9x. On Windows
AFAIK there really isn't a home directory concept, BTW, you're supposed
to store different types of things in different directories.

HTH,
Mike

Luca T. wrote:

>Hello,
>i need a way to find the home folder of the current user no matter if i am
>in Linux or Windows for instance:
>* Linux: /home/username
>* Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\username
>
>[of course this might change]
>
>Is there any general way to do this?
>
>Thank you,
> Luca
>
>
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