The $HOME of Windows.

[Andrew Markebo]

/ Markus Schaber <markus at schabi.de> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| Gillou <nospam at bigfoot.com> schrub:
| 
| > This is not pure Pyhtonic problem but...
| > I'm looking for a place to store user settings in a portable Python
| > app. For Unix users, I use ~/.myapp.defaults
| > What's the equivalent for Windoze (I don't want to use the registry).
| > Knowing that the path to this "My documents" folder depends on wether
| > it's Win98, Win2000 (...) and on the locale.
| 
| As far as I know, the Multi User Wins (NT, 2000, XP) and - when using a 
| network profile from a Win PDC also 9X/ME - define an environment 
| variable HOME that points to the users home directory.

Nope they (WinNT/2k/XP) don't, but they normally define:

        HOMEDRIVE
        HOMEPATH
        HOMESHARE

        /Andy

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