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How to Create a file in "my documents" folder?

Finding the user's "My Documents" path

  • Alright so I have this small program and it needs to create a small .txt file in their 'My Documents' Folder. Here's the code thing for that: textfile=open('C:\Users\MYNAME\Documents','w') lines=['stuff goes here'] textfile.writelines(lines) textfile.close() The problem is that if other people uses it, how do i change the 'MYNAME' to their account name? Sorry if I'm not so clear on my question.

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    Use os.path.expanduser(path), see http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html e.g. expanduser('~/filename') This works on both Unix and Windows, according to the docs. Edit: forward slash due to Sven's comment.

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You can do something similar what is shown in the answer to the question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3858851/python-get-windows-special-folders-for-currently-logged-in-user. For theMy Documentsfolder path, useshellcon.CSIDL_PERSONALin theshell.SHGetFolderPath()function call instead ofshellcon.CSIDL_MYPICTURES.

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