Tim Golden wrote:
> Frustratingly, I don't believe there's *any* canonical
> way to find ~user without actually going through the
whole
> process of getting a token and impersonating them. If
> they've logged onto this machine already you can have
> a good go by following the code posted the other day
> on c.l.py [1] (although I'm now not sure about the
l10n
> aspects which Christian mentioned). Any technique of
> going up one (from your own profile) and then down one
> is no better than assuming that all users are in /home
> on a *nix box.
A while ago I've seen a variant of ExpandEnvironmentStrings
that takes a
user token, too. It's called
ExpandEnvironmentStringsForUser().
htt
p://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373507(VS.85).as
px
Before anybody gets exciting about the good news: Here is
the bad news.
A user token can't be obtained easily. In fact it requires a
login +
password or a process handler. :(
> As to a logged-on user's *own* home path, I'd prefer
> HOMEDRIVE/PATH over USERPROFILE since the latter is at
> least explictly named HOMEsomething, although the
latter
> can be the fallback. Both are present on Win2k & on
WinXP.
> Can't check WinNT or Win9x but I don't know if we're
looking
> to support those or not.
Python 2.6 targets Windows 2000 and newer. So no, we don't
have to
support NT and the 9x series any more.
Christian
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