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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
