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

 

[Tony Nelson]

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.
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[dalius.dobravolskas]

python



Dalius

 

[Tony Nelson]

python

platform looks good.
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