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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Wed Jan 9 15:05:56 CET 2008

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

Careful with the name though. Microsoft Windows Vista did away with 'My Documents & Settings'. It is now C:\Users.

So you get: C:\Users<name>\AppData\Local\ (former Local Settings\Application Data) C:\Users<name>\AppData\Roaming\ (former Application Data) C:\Users<name>\Documents (former My Documents) C:\Users<name>\Music (former My Music) C:\Users<name>\Pictures (former My Pictures) C:\Users<name>\Videos (former My Videos)

My latest version uses the SHGetFolderPathW() function from ShlObj.h. It's the preferred way to get shell folder paths like CLSID_PERSONAL (my documents). It's compatible with 2000 and newer (maybe even older, but we don't support ME, NT4 or older) and works on Vista, too.

Christian

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