os.path.expanduser('~/foo') and MSWindows "My Documents"

[Tony Nelson]

On *nix, ~/foo refers to a file in a user's home directory. On
MSWindows, users normally look at "My Documents" in their home
directory. ISTM that a file that my program would put in ~/. on Linux
should be put in "~/My Documents/" (modulo os.path.normpath()) on
MSWindows, where a user would expect it. How do you guys cope with this
issue?
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[jim.mccoy]

Try this:
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
HOMEDIR = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_PERSONAL)
myfile_location = os.path.join(HOMEDIR, myfile_name)

Define a HOMEDIR for your various platforms (use sys.platform to figure
out what choice to make) and the rest of your code should not need to
care where "home" is...

Regards,

jim

[jim.mccoy]

Try this:
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
HOMEDIR = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_PERSONAL)
myfile_location = os.path.join(HOMEDIR, myfile_name)

Define a HOMEDIR for your various platforms (use sys.platform to figure
out what choice to make) and the rest of your code should not need to
care where "home" is...

Regards,

jim

[Tony Nelson]

In article <11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
ji*******@gmail.com wrote:

Try this:
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
HOMEDIR = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_PERSONAL)
myfile_location = os.path.join(HOMEDIR, myfile_name)

Define a HOMEDIR for your various platforms (use sys.platform to figure
out what choice to make) and the rest of your code should not need to
care where "home" is...

Sounds good, thanks. I'll read up on it all tomorrow.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
TonyN.:' *firstname*nlsnews@georgea*lastname*.com
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

[Tony Nelson]

In article <11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
ji*******@gmail.com wrote:

Try this:
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
HOMEDIR = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_PERSONAL)
myfile_location = os.path.join(HOMEDIR, myfile_name)

Define a HOMEDIR for your various platforms (use sys.platform to figure
out what choice to make) and the rest of your code should not need to
care where "home" is...

Sounds good, thanks. I'll read up on it all tomorrow.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
TonyN.:' *firstname*nlsnews@georgea*lastname*.com
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

[dalius.dobravolskas]

python

import os
help(os.path.expanduser)
import platform
platform.system() 'Windows' platform.release() 'XP'

:-)

Dalius

[dalius.dobravolskas]

python

import os
help(os.path.expanduser)
import platform
platform.system() 'Windows' platform.release() 'XP'

:-)

Dalius

[Tony Nelson]

In article <11**********************@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
da*****************@gmail.com wrote:

python

import os
help(os.path.expanduser)
import platform
platform.system() 'Windows' platform.release() 'XP'

platform looks good.
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TonyN.:' *firstname*nlsnews@georgea*lastname*.com
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

[Tony Nelson]

In article <11**********************@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
da*****************@gmail.com wrote:

python

import os
help(os.path.expanduser)
import platform
platform.system() 'Windows' platform.release() 'XP'

platform looks good.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
TonyN.:' *firstname*nlsnews@georgea*lastname*.com
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>