What is a shortcut to the Default home directory in Windows

[Jerry Hill]

On Jan 18, 2008 3:19 PM, Daniel Folkes <danfolkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to write a file to the users file system.
>
> I need it to be in there home directory in WINDOWS.  I know there is a
> "shortcut" to home in Linux("~"), but is there an equivalent to that
> in windows.  Or to get to their "Documents and Settings" directory?

The easiest way is os.path.expanduser('~')

That works on both unix and windows.  It gets you the user's home
directory on unix, and on windows I think it is based on the
environment variables %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH%.  If that doesn't
give you what you're looking for, you'll need to look into the
environment variables, the registry, or windows system calls,
depending on exactly what you need.

-- 
Jerry