On 12/08/2010 10:50, Tim Golden wrote:
Unfortunately, the canonical place is not always the place most
used. Especially since the convention under *nix is to place dotfile
or dotdirs under $HOME. Windows doesn't, by default, have a $HOME so
various locations are considered $HOME, including (but not limited
to):
* the directory pointed to by %HOME%
* the directory pointed to by %USERPROFILE%
* the "My Documents" shell folder
(often, but not always, %USERPROFILE%\My Documents)
* c:\ (no: really)
* the NT profile home directory (typically a mapped share)
Additionally, on Windows Python expands ~ to the first of:
%HOME%
%USERPROFILE%
%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%
all of which are perfectly defensible defintions of "Home" on
Windows. But combining that with the Unix-minded concept of
"create a dotfile called ~/.myapp" means you get dotapps in
non-standard places on Windows.
TJG
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