Automatically creating a HOME environ variable on Windows?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:26:30 +0100, Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia at fiedzia.prv.pl> wrote:
> Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>
>>> Best solution would be to have portable function that returns
>>> user home directory and knows about all platfom quirks.
>> 
>> Why is that better than Python creating a HOME in os.environ, if it
>> doesn't
>> already exist?  I can think of a few reasons it's better, and a few
>> reasons it's worse.
>
> First, it is possible that HOME viariable already exists and has different
> meaning, (if python is used as embedded scripting language it can be
> defined by application),

And on systems where $HOME exists, that's what this new abstraction would
have to use internally anyway, so us Unix users won't lose anything. OK, I
accept the reasoning.

/Jorgen

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