[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Tue Jan 8 23:30:25 CET 2008

Paul Moore wrote:

Not My Documents, please! That's for documents, not configuration. %USERPROFILE% is actually where most other applications put stuff. The alternative would be %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% which is what os.path.expanduser uses.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494(VS.85).aspx

CSIDL_PROFILE (FOLDERID_Profile) Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical path is C:\Documents and Settings\username. Applications should not create files or folders at this level; they should put their data under the locations referred to by CSIDL_APPDATA or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.

Christian

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