[Tutor] Get me out of the blue (help urgently needed!)

[Gregor Lingl]

Danny Yoo schrieb:

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Gregor Lingl wrote:
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>>'c:\\epacris\\tinyfugue\\home'
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>Hi Gregor,
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>Ok, let's just double check something... Ok, the guilty code is probably
>in 'ntpath.py'.  Let's take a look.
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>def expanduser(path):
>    """Expand ~ and ~user constructs.
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>    If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing."""
>    ....
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>Hmmm.  Not only does it look at HOME, but Python will try to go for
>HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH too!  Wow, that's thorough.  *grin*
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>Gregor, can you drop down to the DOS prompt and try:
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>    echo $HOME
>    echo $HOMEPATH
>    echo $HOMEDRIVE
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I tried this yesterday, and indeed at the DOS prompt HOME had the
value "C:\epacris....", although it didn't show up as an environment 
variable
in 'system' of the control panel any more.

I was not able to delete it, so I created a new (dummy - hmm?) directory
I:\home and

set HOME = I:\home

This now showed up in control panel's system. When I tried to delete it
there, it's old value was surprisingly and silently restored.

I can live with my new  HOME, and even if this in my view at first was
a "work-around", the new IDLE immediately used it to store it's .idlerc
directory and there it's recent file list.

So it turned out not only to be a workaround, but also useful.

Nevertheless I feel a bit uneasy, as this old HOME "C:\epacris\..." is 
apparently
stored somewhere in the system, and I can't find out where nor why it is
restored automatically when I delete the HOME environment variable.

>and tell us what you get?  I do get the feeling that there's some
>lingering environmental variables in your NT installation that's doing
>funny things.  
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So you see, that your feelings meet exactly what's going on!

>Let's double check to see if those variables are
>initialized.
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>>Or is it time to make a change, just relax, take it easy ...
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>Take it easy.  *grin*  Don't worry, we'll get to the bottom of this.
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Hmmm..., I'm not sure if we'll really get to the VERY bottom of this

Many thanks for your quick response (indeed I feel better now)

Gregor

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>Good luck!
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