[python-win32] AppData directory on Windows?

[Tim Golden]

On 01/09/2011 15:04, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 02:49 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
>> On 01/09/2011 13:39, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I’m getting feedback from a Windows user that says my Tkinter app won’t
>>> write data to an app temporary directory. Here’s my code:
>>> sys.stderr=open(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), 'Application
>>> Data', 'QuickWho', 'QuickWho_errors.txt'), 'w')
>>
>> This is a little brittle. I imagine it will at least break
>> from non-English versions of Windows. It will also break
>> for versions of Python prior to 2.5? when expanduser was
>> expanded to include Windows.
>>
>> The simplest approach is to use the APPDATA env var which
>> goes back a few versions (certainly to XP, probably Win 2000).
>>
>> Alternatively, you can use the Windows Shell API to query the
>> same thing -- this should go back even further if you've got
>> someone using something truly prehistoric.
>>
> Not that this helps Kevin, in wxPython there is "wx.StandardPaths" which
> does a pretty good job of getting the right path.
>
> Was hoping that I could point you to the source, but it looks that this
> is mostly implemented in wxWidget and therefore is in C++ and not in
> Python.
>
> Would be nice to have something like this in pure Python - anyone who
> "speaks" C++ and has some free time on his/her hand:).

This might help...?

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winshell.html

TJG