[OT] Home dir under Windows?

[Guenter Dannoritzer]

Basil Shubin wrote:
> Hi, friends!
> 
> Excuse me for offtopic :-)
> 
> Under posix compatible OSes I can acquire path to user home dir by:
>     os.path.expanduser('~')
> 
> and how I can achieve the same thing under Windows 2000/XP?
> 

Hi Basil,

have you tried to use it?

When I tried it, it returned a home path, but according the Python
documentation it depends on some environment variables that are set.

The documentation has some more information about it:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html


Cheers,

Guenter