Paul Moore wrote: > I'd recommend that this change be reverted. To correctly get another > user's home directory would involve reading (via the registry, or > maybe some utility function I couldn't find at a quick glance) the > value of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH which is set for the other user. (In fact, > given that I guess these could be set in a login script, it's entirely > possible that the information simply isn't available).
I concur! The changes should be reverted. The implementation is most likely to fail in more elaborate cases, e.g. c:\users\a\alpha or c:\users\groupa\name. The proper way for a ~user implementation is a bunch of Win32 API calls. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
