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On Aug 11, Peter Torstenson blah blah blah:
> I tried the os.environ['HOME'] statement from the libref. man to get a
> string with the home directory.

Are you sure you imported the os module?

>>> import os
>>> print os.environ['HOME']
/home/jeffp

Works fine for me. What OS are you on?

You can also check what python sees as your environment by doing:

>>> import os
>>> for n in os.environ.keys():
... print n + "=" + os.environ[n]

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Peter Torstenson wrote:
>
> print os.environ['HOME']
>
> gives : invalid token.

It should work; looks like a parsing problem. Have
you accidentally typed a control character somewhere
in that line? Is your indentation consistent?

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