expanduser on windows and wxGlade SOLVED

[Florian Schulze]

Thank you very much for all this infos.

I will just change or remove the HOME environment variable.

Regards,
Florian


On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:21:35 -0800 Trent Mick <trentm at ActiveState.com> wrote:

> [Florian Schulze wrote]
> > > > it seems like os.path.expanduser doesn't work as it should on
> > > > windows, or I don't understand how it works.
> > > > I get this:
> > > > >>> os.path.expanduser("~")
> > > > '%USERPROFILE%'
> 
> 
> > > Depends on what your environment settings are. os.path.expanduser on
> > > Windows first uses your "HOME" env var if it exists. Next it tries to
> > > use HOMEPATH and HOMEDRIVE env. vars. After that it gives up. What
> are
> > > your HOME, HOMEPATH, and HOMEDRIVE environment variables?
> > > 
> > > If you look in the registry under:
> > >     HKCU/Environment
> > > and
> > >     HKLM/Environment
> > > are any of HOME, HOMEPATH, or HOMEDRIVE set to "%USERPROFILE%"?
> 
> 
> > Yes, HOME is set to %USERPROFILE%, but isn't that the default? I can't
> 
> Nope. On Win2k (or on _any_ Windows I believe) there is no HOME
> environment variable by default.
> 
> > remember that I ever changed that. TMP and TEMP for example also
> contain
> > %USERPROFILE% and USERPROFILE is set when I type set on the
> commandline. I
> > think expanduser should also expand any environment variables as far
> as it
> > can. I can't even use expandvars, as it expects $varname, not
> %varname%.
> 
> The only good work around I know for this is to use the actual value of
> USERPROFILE for HOME rather than relying on %USERPROFILE% to be expanded
> when you expect. I have hit this before and gave up trying to figure out
> when this %FOO% expansion is being done.
> 
> You *could* also write your own expandvars() method for Windows. It
> should not be too hard to write with re.sub(). Here is an attempt:
> 
> >>> import os
> >>> def expandvars(s):
> ...     import re
> ...     return re.sub("%(\w+)%",
> ...                   lambda m: os.environ.get(m.group(1), ""),
> ...                   s
> ...                  )
> ...
> >>> expandvars("foo's home is %HOME% %H O M E%")
> "foo's home is d:\\trentm %H O M E%"
> >>> expandvars("HOME is %HOME%, this one is not expanded %H O M E%")
> 'HOME is d:\\trentm, this one is not expanded %H O M E%'
> >>> expandvars("USERPROFILE is '%USERPROFILE%'")
> "USERPROFILE is 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\trentm'"
> 
> 
> Trent
> 
> -- 
> Trent Mick
> TrentM at ActiveState.com
>