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import ctypes from ctypes import windll, wintypes class GUID(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [ ('Data1', wintypes.DWORD), ('Data2', wintypes.WORD), ('Data3', wintypes.WORD), ('Data4', wintypes.BYTE * 8) ] def __init__(self, l, w1, w2, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8): """Create a new GUID.""" self.Data1 = l self.Data2 = w1 self.Data3 = w2 self.Data4[:] = (b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8) def __repr__(self): b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8 = self.Data4 return 'GUID(%x-%x-%x-%x%x%x%x%x%x%x%x)' % ( self.Data1, self.Data2, self.Data3, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8) # constants to be used according to the version on shell32 CSIDL_PROFILE = 40 FOLDERID_Profile = GUID(0x5E6C858F, 0x0E22, 0x4760, 0x9A, 0xFE, 0xEA, 0x33, 0x17, 0xB6, 0x71, 0x73) def expand_user(): # get the function that we can find from Vista up, not the one in XP get_folder_path = getattr(windll.shell32, 'SHGetKnownFolderPath', None) import pdb; pdb.set_trace() if get_folder_path is not None: # ok, we can use the new function which is recomended by the msdn ptr = ctypes.c_wchar_p() get_folder_path(ctypes.byref(FOLDERID_Profile), 0, 0, ctypes.byref(ptr)) return ptr.value else: # use the deprecated one found in XP and on for compatibility reasons get_folder_path = getattr(windll.shell32, 'SHGetSpecialFolderPathW', None) buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(300) get_folder_path(None, buf, CSIDL_PROFILE, False) return buf.value