On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tobias M. <t...@tobix.eu> wrote: > Yes, '~' is your home directory. You can actually use this in your > shell instead of typing the whole path.
The tilde shortcut is a C shell legacy inspired by the 1970s ADM-3A terminal, which had "Home" and tilde on the same key. Python has os.path.expanduser('~'), which also works on Windows even though using tilde like this isn't a Windows convention. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor