"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:55:21 +0200, Jarek Zgoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> crystalattice napisa?(a): >> >> > If I want to make sure the file/directory is made in a user's home >> > directory (e.g. /home/users/path/to/file) but also compatible w/ >> > Windows, how would I rewrite this (if required)? >> >> On Windows, there's no notion of user's home directory, there is a >> directory for user's profile that is treated as $HOME but isn't >> (%USERPROFILE%), something that looks like $HOME, bot in fact is not >> (%HOMEDRIVE% + %HOMEPATH%) and many other mess. Microsoft suggests using >> %USERPROFILE%, but they do not specify desired behaviour, when >> %USERPROFILE% == c:\. > > There is also the registry entry > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell > Folders\Personal > > which, on my machine, contains the value > > E:\UserData\Dennis Lee Bieber\My Documents
According to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/03/55532.aspx the Shell Folders key shouldn't be relied upon. You can retrieve user directories using SHGetFolderPath or SHGetSpecialFolderPath, both of which are wrapped by win32com.shell. Roger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
