[Python-Dev] ntpath r54364 (was: PEP 370, open questions) (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Jan 17 19:32:22 CET 2008

Paul Moore wrote:

I'd recommend that this change be reverted. To correctly get another user's home directory would involve reading (via the registry, or maybe some utility function I couldn't find at a quick glance) the value of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH which is set for the other user. (In fact, given that I guess these could be set in a login script, it's entirely possible that the information simply isn't available).

I concur! The changes should be reverted. The implementation is most likely to fail in more elaborate cases, e.g. c:\users\a\alpha or c:\users\groupa\name. The proper way for a ~user implementation is a bunch of Win32 API calls.

Christian

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