Finding user's home dir
Bernhard Herzog
bh at intevation.de
Thu Feb 3 08:59:25 EST 2005
Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> Miki Tebeka wrote:
>>>Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
>>>return the actual user home directory.
>>>...
>> What's wrong with:
>> from user import home
>> which does about what your code does.
>
> :-)
>
> I suspect he simply didn't know about it. I didn't either...
The purpose of the user module is executing ~/.pythonrc.py, which may
not desirable. It definitely shouldn't be done by a library, for
instance. Also, that the user's home directory is available as
user.home is not documented, and I for one wouldn't want to rely on
that.
Bernhard
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