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(In this case,
In more recent versions of Windows, the "Documents" folder is normally located right under
How to Get Documents Folder Path in Windows
On Windows, the%userprofile%
environment variable contains the path to the user's folder, which can be expanded using the os.path.expandvars()
function.>>> import os
>>> os.path.expandvars("%userprofile%")
'C:\\Users\\pcuser'
(In this case,
pcuser
is the user name.)In more recent versions of Windows, the "Documents" folder is normally located right under
%userprofile%
. Thus, the following code could be used to get its path:>>> os.path.expandvars("%userprofile%\\Documents")
'C:\\Users\\pcuser\\Documents'
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