[New-bugs-announce] [issue6556] "HOME" is not a standard environment variable on Windows

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com>:

The distutils looks in an environment variable named "HOME" on Windows:

http://docs.python.org/install/#location-and-names-of-config-files

Windows does not by default create such a variable, so only if a user
has manually configured one will it work.  The standard variable for
this purpose on Windows appears to be spelled "USERPROFILE":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 90861
nosy: tarek, zooko
severity: normal
status: open
title: "HOME" is not a standard environment variable on Windows

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