PEP proposal for user.py (win32 part)

[Gillou]

Hi community,

The actual detection for the ".pythonrc.py" file does not work with Windows
95/98 and perhaps others (ME ?) because the environment variables HOMEPATH
and HOMEDRIVE are unset by default.
Im my Win2K box, HOMEPATH is '\' and HOMEDRIVE is 'C:'. Combination of both
don't give the user "HOME" directory for Windows.

This replacement proposal will find the personal user folder (typically
"...\My Documents") in the Windows registry.

Replace the code beween...

elif os.name == 'nt':  # Contributed by Jeff Bauer

...and...

pythonrc = os.path.join(home, ".pythonrc.py")

...by the (indented) following ...

import _winreg
shellkeyId = 'Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\explorer\\Shell
Folders'
shellkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, shellkeyId)
home = _winreg.QueryValueEx(shellkey, 'Personal')[0]
_winreg.CloseKey(shellkey)

This has been successfully tested with Windows 98se, Windows 2000 pro and
Python 2.1.2.
Can you please reply in this thread if this works on other Win32 platforms
(95/ME/NT/XP).
Any other comment ?

--Gillou