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How to find the real user home directory using Python?
To get the homedir in python, you can use os.path.expanduser('~') from the os module. This also works if its a part of a longer path like ~/Documents/my_folder/. If there is no ~ in the path, the function will return the path unchanged. You can use it like −
import os
print(os.path.expanduser('~'))You can also query the environment variables for the HOME variable −
import os print(os.environ['HOME'])
If you're on Python 3.4+, you can also use pathlib module to get the home directory.
example
from pathlib import Path print(Path.home())
Published on 27-Dec-2017 10:51:50
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