Reed O'Brien wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:48 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>> -On [20080108 17:07], Christian Heimes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 get_mydocuments().
>> 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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