On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Paul McNett wrote:

> Not objecting, just discussing.

>

> If someone is explicitly setting HomeDirectory, but the path doesn't exist, IMO an

> exception *should* be raised.

>

> I've never found the need to *set* HomeDirectory.

HomeDirectory is now added automatically in the Class Designer, as a way of handling path resolution. We discussed this at PyCon. As usual, though, Windows will store something like 'E:\foo\bar', which will always fail on POSIX systems. I'm looking into a way to make this a little more x-platform, but in the meantime, crashing isn't the best way of handling things.

-- Ed Leafe

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