Re: Finding user's home dir
From: Timothy Grant (timothy.grant_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:55:22 -0800 To: Nemesis <nemesis@nowhere.invalid>
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:30:34 -0800 (PST), Nemesis
<nemesis@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
> return the actual user home directory. I saw that
> os.path.expanduser("~") works on Linux but on Windows2000 (at least on
> the win I used) it returns %USERPROFILE%, so I tried os.environ["HOME"]
> and it gave me the same results. So I ended up with
> os.environ["USERPROFILE"], it doesn't work on Linux but (at least) on
> Windows2000 it returns the correct information
>
> I googled a little bit and it seems that there is no general solution,
> so I tried to merge what I found, and I wrote this little function:
>
> def getHomeDir():
> ''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current directory.'''
> try:
> path1=os.path.expanduser("~")
> except:
> path1=""
> try:
> path2=os.environ["HOME"]
> except:
> path2=""
> try:
> path3=os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
> except:
> path3=""
>
> if not os.path.exists(path1):
> if not os.path.exists(path2):
> if not os.path.exists(path3):
> return os.getcwd()
> else: return path3
> else: return path2
> else: return path1
>
> Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
> I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
> I'm developing a multiplatform software.
>
> Thank you all.
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