> The ".myapp.conf" is in the home folder of the user. > ... > obviously I won't know the home user folder name then I wanted to use: > How can I do to access this file whatever the user is ?
You can get the user name using getpass.getuser() as described in the OS topic of my tutor under the Securiity heading. You can also try using os.getenv() or the os.environ variable to look up the HOME environment variable, also discussed in the OS topic. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor