[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions (original) (raw)

Suraj Barkale suraj at barkale.com
Thu Jan 17 23:11:31 CET 2008

Paul Moore <p.f.moore gmail.com> writes:

Yes, this does contradict the Microsoft guideline that you shouldn't write to USERPROFILE, but Microsoft themselves set HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH, so they vioated the guidelines, not us . The point here is that we want "the user's home". This is clearly %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% on Windows, guidelines notwithstanding.

To add another twist to this the HOMEDRIVE mapping is not guarantied at all on windows startup (http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+homedrive+mapping). This has caused a lot of pain for me in the past.

Can this be changed into using %APPDATA% by default and changing to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% based on some MSI switch?

Regards, Suraj

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