You’re going to be disappointed: %userprofile% You can use other terminals, though. Powershell, which I believe you can get on XP and later (and comes preinstalled with Win7), allows you to use ~ for home directory.
The bug you reference (bug 4787391) has been fixed in Java 8. Even if you are using an older version of Java, the System.getProperty(“user.home”) approach is probably still the best. The user.home approach seems to work in a very large number of cases. A 100% bulletproof solution on Windows is hard, because Windows has a … Read more
You want to use os.path.expanduser. This will ensure it works on all platforms: from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser(“~”) If you’re on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home(): from pathlib import Path home = str(Path.home())