Windows doesn't have a HOME environment variable, but it does have
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH. Could Windows versions of Python automatically
populate os.environ with HOME, where HOME =
os.path.join(os.environ['HOMEDRIVE'], os.environ['HOMEPATH'])?
If this was done, then modules such as pdb, which load resource files
from HOME, would work under Windows.
Alternatively, here is a patch to make pdb.py read .pdbrc under
Windows.
*** pdb_orig.py Mon Jun 16 01:26:30 2003
--- pdb.py Sat Oct 29 11:11:07 2005
***************
*** 65,72 ****
--- 65,76 ----
# Read $HOME/.pdbrc and ./.pdbrc
self.rcLines = []
+ envHome = ''
if 'HOME' in os.environ:
envHome = os.environ['HOME']
+ elif 'HOMEDRIVE' in os.environ and 'HOMEPATH' in os.environ:
+ envHome = os.path.join(os.environ['HOMEDRIVE'],
os.environ['HOMEPATH'])
+ if envHome:
try:
rcFile = open(os.path.join(envHome, ".pdbrc"))
except IOError:
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