Re: Windows User path

xp: returns 'c:\\Documents and Settings\\phillipp' for me.

don't have access to nt or me systems, but may be able to get you 2k
and 98 results ...

also see the code:

def expanduser(path):
    """Expand ~ and ~user constructs.

    If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing."""
    if path[:1] != '~':
        return path
    i, n = 1, len(path)
    while i < n and path[i] not in '/\\':
        i = i + 1
    if i == 1:
        if os.environ.has_key('HOME'):
            userhome = os.environ['HOME']
        elif not os.environ.has_key('HOMEPATH'):
            return path
        else:
            try:
                drive = os.environ['HOMEDRIVE']
            except KeyError:
                drive = ''
            userhome = join(drive, os.environ['HOMEPATH'])
    else:
        return path
    return userhome + path[i:]

cheers,
phil :)

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:46:00PM +0200, Georg Bauer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> >Is this different from os.path.expanduser?  ntpath.py's expanduser()
> >seems to contain the logic that people have been talking about here ...
> 
> Ah, didn't remember that function. Sure, os.path.expanduser('~/') 
> _should_ give a correct path, but I never tried that with Windows. Can 
> somebody with different Windows versions please post what is returned by
> 
> os.path.expanduser('~/')
> 
> under at least the following systems:
> 
> Windows 9x
> Windows ME
> Windows NT
> Windows 2000
> Windows XP
> 
> (although I hope the last three behave mostly identically)
> 
> bye, Georg
>