PyQt: QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory using a default directory, user independant

Question

When using the QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory I\'ve found the way to specify the default path to a directory. I wanted to use a default directory somewhere in my

Answer 1

You can get the user's home directory by using os.path.expanduser

>>> from os.path import expanduser
>>> expanduser("~")
/home/user_name

This works on Windows and Linux.

Your code block will look like this then

my_dir = QtGui.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(
    self,
    "Open a folder",
    expanduser("~"),
    QtGui.QFileDialog.ShowDirsOnly
)