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Asked: 2026-06-06T06:07:59+00:00

I have this program in Python which should save text files to a folder

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I have this program in Python which should save text files to a folder inside the “My Documents” of the user. The problem is that the program doesn’t know the username, or the Windows version to know the correct path. How could I get this done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The doc says, the following code is expanded to the user’s home directory on windows too..

    homeDir = os.path.expanduser("~")

    From the documentation:

    On Windows, HOME and USERPROFILE will be used if set, otherwise a combination of HOMEPATH and HOMEDRIVE will be used. An initial ~user is handled by stripping the last directory component from the created user path derived above.

    Also look into this for using Win32APIs

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