Find "home directory" in Python? [duplicate]

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How to find the real user home directory using python?
How to get the home directory in Python?

I want to access /home/weasel to read some files from there but I don't want to write the full path of course - so other users can use the script.. how do you know your username or your home dir with python on Linux?

Thanks

Answer 1

To get the homedir in python, you can use os.path.expanduser('~').

This also works if it's part of a longer path, such as os.path.expanduser('~/some/directory/file.txt'). If there is no ~ in the path, the function will return the path unchanged.

So depending on what you want to do it's better than reading os.environ['HOME']

The username is available through getpass.getuser()

Answer 2

The portable way of getting the home directory in Python is using os.path.expanduser('~').