Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
return the actual user home directory. I saw that
os.path.expanduser("~") works on Linux but on Windows2000 (at least on
the win I used) it returns %USERPROFILE%, so I tried os.environ["HOME"]
and it gave me the same results. So I ended up with
os.environ["USERPROFILE"], it doesn't work on Linux but (at least) on
Windows2000 it returns the correct information

I googled a little bit and it seems that there is no general solution,
so I tried to merge what I found, and I wrote this little function:

def getHomeDir():
''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current directory.'''
try:
path1=os.path.expanduser("~")
except:
path1=""
try:
path2=os.environ["HOME"]
except:
path2=""
try:
path3=os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
except:
path3=""

if not os.path.exists(path1):
if not os.path.exists(path2):
if not os.path.exists(path3):
return os.getcwd()
else: return path3
else: return path2
else: return path1

Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
I'm developing a multiplatform software.

Thank you all.
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:26:00 +0000, Nemesis wrote:
[color=blue]
> Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
> I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
> I'm developing a multiplatform software.
>
> Thank you all.[/color]

I tried your function in my environment (Python 2.3.3 on Linux) and it
returned the home directory properly

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Mark Nenadov
Python Byte Solutions
http://www.pythonbyte.com/

on win xp home, python 2.4 its also correct for me

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:30:34 -0800 (PST), Nemesis
<nemesis@nowhere.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
> return the actual user home directory. I saw that
> os.path.expanduser("~") works on Linux but on Windows2000 (at least on
> the win I used) it returns %USERPROFILE%, so I tried os.environ["HOME"]
> and it gave me the same results. So I ended up with
> os.environ["USERPROFILE"], it doesn't work on Linux but (at least) on
> Windows2000 it returns the correct information
>
> I googled a little bit and it seems that there is no general solution,
> so I tried to merge what I found, and I wrote this little function:
>
> def getHomeDir():
> ''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current directory.'''
> try:
> path1=os.path.expanduser("~")
> except:
> path1=""
> try:
> path2=os.environ["HOME"]
> except:
> path2=""
> try:
> path3=os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
> except:
> path3=""
>
> if not os.path.exists(path1):
> if not os.path.exists(path2):
> if not os.path.exists(path3):
> return os.getcwd()
> else: return path3
> else: return path2
> else: return path1
>
> Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
> I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
> I'm developing a multiplatform software.
>
> Thank you all.
> --
> Unauthorized amphibians will be toad away.
>
> |\ | |HomePage : http://nem01.altervista.org
> | \|emesis |XPN (my nr): http://xpn.altervista.org
>
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>[/color]

Works beautifully on my PowerBook running Mac OSX 10.3.7

/Users/timothygrant

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Nemesis wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
> return the actual user home directory. I saw that
> os.path.expanduser("~") works on Linux but on Windows2000 (at least on
> the win I used) it returns %USERPROFILE%, so I tried os.environ["HOME"]
> and it gave me the same results. So I ended up with
> os.environ["USERPROFILE"], it doesn't work on Linux but (at least) on
> Windows2000 it returns the correct information
>
> I googled a little bit and it seems that there is no general solution,
> so I tried to merge what I found, and I wrote this little function:
>
> def getHomeDir():
> ''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current directory.'''
> try:
> path1=os.path.expanduser("~")
> except:
> path1=""
> try:
> path2=os.environ["HOME"]
> except:
> path2=""
> try:
> path3=os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
> except:
> path3=""
>
> if not os.path.exists(path1):
> if not os.path.exists(path2):
> if not os.path.exists(path3):
> return os.getcwd()
> else: return path3
> else: return path2
> else: return path1
>
> Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
> I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
> I'm developing a multiplatform software.
>
> Thank you all.[/color]

It works on Cygwin too!

regards
Steve
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Python 2.4 (#1, Jan 1 2005, 21:33:55)
[GCC 3.3.4] on linux2
Slackware 10 Current

Works! Nice.

Nemesis said the following on 2/2/2005 2:26 PM:[color=blue]
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
>
> def getHomeDir():
> ''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current directory.'''
>
> Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
> I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
> I'm developing a multiplatform software.
>
> Thank you all.[/color]


Neat!

Works fine on Freebsd 5.3, Python 2.4

Thanks,
-Kartic

Hello Nemesis,
[color=blue]
> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
> return the actual user home directory.
> ...[/color]
What's wrong with:
from user import home
which does about what your code does.

Bye.
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http://tebeka.bizhat.com
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Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@zoran.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello Nemesis,
>[color=green]
>> Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
>> return the actual user home directory.
>> ...[/color]
> What's wrong with:
> from user import home
> which does about what your code does.[/color]

Except it also execfile()s $HOME/.pythonrc.py, which might not be wanted.

Saluton
Marc