TypeError while checking for permissions with os.access() on windows xp

ryniek90 ryniek90 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 17:37:22 EDT 2009


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>     WTF??
>     Why on IDLE it works, but when i run this script in cmd.exe, the
>     os.getenv('HOME') goes NoneType?
>     I'm to newbie yet to understand this  :/
>
>
> HOME is simply not a standard environment variable that Windows 
> provides. Any program can set/add environment variables as it deems 
> fit; in this case it seems IDLE is setting one, but you can't rely on 
> it outside of IDLE.
>
> If you do os.environ["HOMEDRIVE"] + os.environ["HOMEPATH"] it may be 
> what you want.
>
> Start up cmd.exe, type 'set' -- that's the default/standard 
> environment variables you have to work with. That's it.
>
> --S

Yep, now that variable works fine. Thanks.



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