OS independent retrieval of home directory

[hproe]

Good people -

In scripts it is useful to refer I/O operations to the home directory. Buried somewhere in the net I have found the following elegant way to do this independent of the OS:
homeDir = os.path.expanduser('~')

It works under Windows and Linux, and on Macs.

HP

[Jon]

There's a function called "_expandpath" in interactive.py that basically pipes a path string through expand[user|vars|whatnot] and so basically you can pass in something like:

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_expandpath('/tmp/test/../$USER/./filename.ext')

and get something like '/tmp/jbeavers/filename.ext' returned.