~Python ?

[Steve Holden]

Thomas A. Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote in message
news:3A484B39.A16C0B99 at python.net...
> Gerson Kurz wrote:
> >
[snip]
> Wouldn't os.environ['HOME'] be an acceptable way of handling this problem?
> I'm not sure whether such a variable is available under other OSs, such as
> Windows, but at least environment variables are available under Windows.
> I think that '~' is a foreign concept to non-UNIX users.  (ActivePython is
> a Windows distribution of Python, right?)
>
ActivePython is actually available for Linux, Solaris and Windoze (although
of course there's little point expecting Win32 support in the former two
platforms, unless Wine and WABI have come a lot further than I thought :-)

regards
 Steve