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tempfile.gettem pdir() result on Windows

On MS Windows, I am trying to find out a good default location to
save some temporary files.

The tempfile module seemed to have exactly what I wanted:
import tempfile
tempfile.gettem pdir() 'c:\\docume~1\\ admini~1\\local s~1\\temp'


My problem (entirely cosmetic, but still) is that I also need to
show this location to the users of my program, who I suspect
would be much happier with a 'proper' Windows path than with this
'~1' DOS malarkey.

Does anybody know how I can obtain a temp directory in 'verbose'
format (or somehow convert the gettempdir() result to that)?

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Leo Breebaart <le*@lspace.org >
Jul 19 '05 #1
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