[Leo Breebaart] | | On MS Windows, I am trying to find out a good default location to | save some temporary files. | | The tempfile module seemed to have exactly what I wanted: | | >>> import tempfile | >>> tempfile.gettempdir() | 'c:\\docume~1\\admini~1\\locals~1\\temp' | >>> | | My problem (entirely cosmetic, but still) is that I also need to | show this location to the users of my program, who I suspect | would be much happier with a 'proper' Windows path than with this | '~1' DOS malarkey. | | Does anybody know how I can obtain a temp directory in 'verbose' | format (or somehow convert the gettempdir() result to that)?
Have a look at win32api.GetLongPathName (from the pywin32 extensions, in case it wasn't obvious). So something like this: <code> import tempfile import win32api print tempfile.gettempdir () print win32api.GetLongPathName (tempfile.gettempdir ()) </code> TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
