29 May
2000
29 May
'00
3 a.m.
Modifyable data needs to go in a per-user directory, even on Windows, outside the Python tree.
Is there a reliable algorithm to find a "per-user" directory on any Win95/98/NT/2000 system? On MacOS?
I don't know -- often $HOME is set on Windows. E.g. IDLE uses $HOME if set and otherwise the current directory. The Mac doesn't have an environment at all.
Idea: Wouldn't it be nice if the 'nt' and 'mac' versions of the 'os' module would provide 'os.environ["HOME"]' similar to the posix version? This would certainly simplify the task of application programmers intending to write portable applications.
This sounds like a nice idea... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)