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

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Jan 11 03:16:55 CET 2008

Reed O'Brien wrote:

On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:48 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

-On [20080108 17:07], Christian Heimes (lists at cheimes.de) wrote:

Python's winreg module and pywin32 expose several functions to get the paths from the registry but I don't think it has a simple function like getmydocuments(). 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) yay, next up posix support....

I suspect that the whole thing was done to make sure that developers of applications could: A: cope with stupidly long path names. V: cope with spaces in path names.

I bet they never intended to keep the huge names, just to make you cope with them.

--Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org

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