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

Sounds like you're trying to run this on Windows based entirely on your "[launching] it from the cmd". IDLE is giving you that as a convenience; on Windows use USERPROFILE instead of HOME. The %USERPROFILE% envar is the Win32 $HOME.