Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
