On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, goldtech wrote: > Can anyone link me or explain the following: > > I open a file in a python script. I want the new file's location to be > on the user's desktop in a Windows XP environment. fileHandle = open > (....., 'w' ) what I guess I'm looking for is an environmental > variable that will usually be correct on most XP desktops and will > work in the open statement. Or is there another way? > > Thanks > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
import os.path home = os.path.expanduser('~') desktop = os.path.join(home, 'Desktop') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list