Finding the "home" folder [Linux/Windows]

[Mike C. Fletcher]

There's some code in OpenGLContext to do something like this (though 
it's getting the user's application-data directory, not their "home" 
directory):

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pyopengl/OpenGLContext/browser/homedirectory.py?view=markup

You'll want to use one of the other shellcon.CSIDL_* constants and 
something other than 'AppData' to get the "home" directory (whatever 
that means) and will want to figure out something for Win9x.  On Windows 
AFAIK there really isn't a home directory concept, BTW, you're supposed 
to store different types of things in different directories. 

HTH,
Mike


Luca T. wrote:

>Hello,
>i need a way to find the home folder of the current user no matter if i am
>in Linux or Windows for instance:
>* Linux: /home/username
>* Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\username
>
>[of course this might change]
>
>Is there any general way to do this?
>
>Thank you,
>  Luca
>  
>
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