On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:26:30 +0100, Maciej Dziardziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn wrote: > >>> Best solution would be to have portable function that returns >>> user home directory and knows about all platfom quirks. >> >> Why is that better than Python creating a HOME in os.environ, if it >> doesn't >> already exist? I can think of a few reasons it's better, and a few >> reasons it's worse. > > First, it is possible that HOME viariable already exists and has different > meaning, (if python is used as embedded scripting language it can be > defined by application),
And on systems where $HOME exists, that's what this new abstraction would have to use internally anyway, so us Unix users won't lose anything. OK, I accept the reasoning. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
