Python os.environ[“HOME”] works on idle but not in a script

Question

I am working on a simple Python (2.7.3) script, but I have to get the user\'s Home Folder. I tried:

import os
home_folder = os.environ[\"HOME\"]

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Answer 1

Windows has no HOME environment variable. It uses USERPROFILE instead. To solve the problem you can define a new variable "HOME" typing on your console:

set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

as a copy of the USERPROFILE variable.

You can check that they are identical typing:

echo %USERPROFILE%
echo %HOME%

It will work for the current session.