cross platform application configuration files
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Feb 28 14:24:35 EST 2003
In article <b3och6$1kl$1 at peabody.colorado.edu>,
Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You may find the code below useful. That's what I use to find what '~'
> would be in a reasonably portable manner so my code doesn't barf completely
> under windows if it has to run there.
...
> Currently only Posix and NT are implemented, a HomeDirError exception is
> raised for all other OSes. """ #'
For what it's worth, this works as-is with the command-line OS X python
(counts as posix for this code's purposes).
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David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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