How to get the home directory in Python

Question

I need to get the location of the home directory of the current logged-on user  Currently  I ve been using the following on Linux   os getenv  HOME     However  this does not work on Windows  What is the correct cross-platform way to do this

User · Accepted Answer

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

User · Answer

I found that pathlib module also supports this  from pathlib import Path  gt  gt  gt  Path home   WindowsPath  C  Users XXX

User · Answer

I know this is an old thread  but I recently needed this for a large scale project  Python 3 8   It had to work on any mainstream OS  so therefore I went with the solution  Max wrote in the comments  Code  import os print os path expanduser  quot   quot     Output Windows  PS C  Python gt   amp  C  Python38 python exe c  Python test py C  Users mXXXXX  Output Linux  Ubuntu   rxxx xx  mnt c Python  python3 test py  home rxxx  I also tested it on Python 2 7 17 and that works too

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