Tim Golden wrote: > Frustratingly, I don't believe there's *any* canonical > way to find ~user without actually going through the whole > process of getting a token and impersonating them. If > they've logged onto this machine already you can have > a good go by following the code posted the other day > on c.l.py [1] (although I'm now not sure about the l10n > aspects which Christian mentioned). Any technique of > going up one (from your own profile) and then down one > is no better than assuming that all users are in /home > on a *nix box.
A while ago I've seen a variant of ExpandEnvironmentStrings that takes a user token, too. It's called ExpandEnvironmentStringsForUser(). http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373507(VS.85).aspx Before anybody gets exciting about the good news: Here is the bad news. A user token can't be obtained easily. In fact it requires a login + password or a process handler. :( > As to a logged-on user's *own* home path, I'd prefer > HOMEDRIVE/PATH over USERPROFILE since the latter is at > least explictly named HOMEsomething, although the latter > can be the fallback. Both are present on Win2k & on WinXP. > Can't check WinNT or Win9x but I don't know if we're looking > to support those or not. Python 2.6 targets Windows 2000 and newer. So no, we don't have to support NT and the 9x series any more. 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
