[Tutor] Acessing files in Windows 2000

[R. Alan Monroe]

> I have a script that converts data relating to my work.

> It works great on my Linux system but some of my colleagues run windows. 
> I am attempting to convert the file paths to windows but am having no luck.

> I need to access 'memo.txt' in 'my documents' on windows & am struggling.
> I have tried just about every combination of \ and / and \\ and // but 
> to no avail.
> I need something like ...

> C:\My Documents\memo.txt

You'll have to come up with some windows-specific trick to find out
the current user, because "my documents" is actually in
c:\documents and settings\currentusername\my documents\

Try getting it from the HOMEPATH environment variable.

import os
print os.environ['HOMEPATH']


Alan