Re: Automatically creating a HOME environ variable on Windows?
- From: Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn-nntq@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Oct 2005 00:35:54 GMT
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:43:44 +0200, Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> jim.eggleston@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Cool, even better. So what's best, having code to add HOME
>> (=USERPROFILE) to os.environ, or change the various places that HOME is
>> used to check for USERPROFILE?
>
> Best solution would be to have portable function that returns
> user home directory and knows about all platfom quirks.
Why is that better than Python creating a HOME in os.environ, if it doesn't
already exist? I can think of a few reasons it's better, and a few reasons
it's worse.
/Jorgen
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