HOME Directory in posix and nt

[Jörg Maier]

Hey,

ist there a possibility to get the users homedirectory as environment
variables %HOMEPATH% or $HOME. there must be a way to see system variables
other than 
stdout = os.popen('{ echo $HOME } 2>&1 ', 'r') on posix and
stdout = os.popen('echo %HOMEPATH% 2>&1', 'r')
with
home = stdout.readline()
???
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