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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Path variables

Most platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, support some kind of shell variables, which are often automatically set up by the system to point to common filesystem locations. The os.path module provides the expandvars function to expand these variables into their actual values  (pathlib has no equivalent method). While these variables can be useful in locating common path locations, the cross-platform developer should understand that they are not consistent across platforms.

Some commonly used variables across different systems include the following:

Description
Windows
macOS
Linux
Current user home directory %HOME%, %USERPROFILE% $HOME $HOME
Temporary directory %TMP%, %TEMP% $TMPDIR None
Path to default ...
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