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Get Home directory path in Python (win, lin, other?)

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The current user's home directory is probably the easiest way to get a writeable directory, and expanduser does the sensible thing on various OSes.

In case of windows, you can choose to be smarter about *which* directory you pick.

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  1. homedir = os.path.expanduser('~')
  2.  
  3. # ...works on at least windows and linux. 
  4. # In windows it points to the user's folder 
  5. #  (the one directly under Documents and Settings, not My Documents)
  6.  
  7.  
  8. # In windows, you can choose to care about local versus roaming profiles.
  9. # You can fetch the current user's through PyWin32.
  10. #
  11. # For example, to ask for the roaming 'Application Data' directory:
  12. #  (CSIDL_APPDATA asks for the roaming, CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA for the local one)
  13. #  (See microsoft references for further CSIDL constants)
  14. try:
  15.     from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell            
  16.     homedir = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA, 0, 0)
  17.  
  18. except ImportError: # quick semi-nasty fallback for non-windows/win32com case
  19.     homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")

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