Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Miki Tebeka wrote: >>>Hi all, I'm trying to write a multiplatform function that tries to >>>return the actual user home directory. >>>... >> What's wrong with: >> from user import home >> which does about what your code does. > > :-) > > I suspect he simply didn't know about it. I didn't either...
The purpose of the user module is executing ~/.pythonrc.py, which may not desirable. It definitely shouldn't be done by a library, for instance. Also, that the user's home directory is available as user.home is not documented, and I for one wouldn't want to rely on that. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Skencil http://skencil.org/ Thuban http://thuban.intevation.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
