Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to
return the actual user home directory. I saw that
os.path.expanduser("~") works on Linux but on Windows2000 (at least on
the win I used) it returns %USERPROFILE%, so I tried os.environ["HOME"]
and it gave me the same results. So I ended up with
os.environ["USERPROFILE"], it doesn't work on Linux but (at least) on
Windows2000 it returns the correct information
I googled a little bit and it seems that there is no general solution,
so I tried to merge what I found, and I wrote this little function:
def getHomeDir():
''' Try to find user's home directory, otherwise return current
directory.'''
try:
path1=os.path.expanduser("~")
except:
path1=""
try:
path2=os.environ["HOME"]
except:
path2=""
try:
path3=os.environ["USERPROFILE"]
except:
path3=""
if not os.path.exists(path1):
if not os.path.exists(path2):
if not os.path.exists(path3):
return os.getcwd()
else: return path3
else: return path2
else: return path1
Please, could you test it on your systems and tell me what you got?
I'd like to know what it returns on different operating systems because
I'm developing a multiplatform software.
Thank you all.
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