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change to home directory
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how to change the current directory to the home directory, in python?  if i have os.chdir(home) then where to get home from?
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home="~"?
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(Apr-20-2017, 04:12 AM)micseydel Wrote: home="~"?

Output:
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~'
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https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.pat...expanduser

os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~"))
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that's better
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