Tony Houghton wrote: > > This works on Win XP. Not sure if it will work on Linux. > > > > import os > > > > parent = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.sys.argv[0]))[0] > > file = parent + os.sep + '.bombz' > > Ooh, no, I don't want saved data to go in the installation directory. In > general that practice encourages people to run with Admin access, and > it's about time Windows users were discouraged from that.
Yes, it occurred to me you didn't want to do that after I posted. Looks like maybe the correct place would be as you suggested, but maybe doing it this way would be better. import os user = os.path.join( os.environ["USERPROFILE"], 'Application Data', 'Bombz' ) Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list