Python doesn't understand %userprofile%

[castironpi]

On Jun 10, 6:51 pm, TheSaint <fc14301... at icqmail.com> wrote:
> On 00:11, mercoledì 11 giugno 2008 Tim Golden wrote:
>
> > "%USERPROFILE%/dir/file".
>
> os.environ('USERPROFILE') should return an info regarding that environment
> variable.
> I guess that, not yet tried.
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I found:

from os import environ
r'%(HOMEPATH)s\My Documents\My Pictures\pycon.bmp'% environ

But 'os.join' is supposedly more correct.