This may seem stupid to a few, but I was wondering if there was some code to find out the operating system of the present user, and then the path to his Desktop using python.
On a default Ubuntu running Python 2.7 you can use the following commands
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import platform
userhome = os.path.expanduser('~')
desktop = userhome + '/Desktop/'
useros = platform.system() # returns e.g. 'Linux' 'Windows'
distribution = platform.linux_distribution() 'in case it's a Unix
When coding a cross platfrom application you should be aware that not all desktop environments make use of a desktop directory. This will even be true for some XDG desktops.
In case you code for different locales you need to parse the name given for the desktop directory from the users's xdg desktop configuration (see How can I get the (XDG) Default User Directories from Python?).
