On Sep 17, 6:39 am, Laurent Pointal > May use simple file in known place: > $HOME/.myprefs > $HOME/.conf/myprefs > > Or host specific configuration API: > WindowsRegistry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MySociety\MyApp\myprefs > > See os.getenv, and _winreg Windows specific module. > See also standard ConfigParser module
Also, os.path offers expanduser(). The following is reasonably portable: import os user_home_dir = os.path.expanduser("~") -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list