On win98 os.path.expanuser('~') does not result in a useable directory.
The MSDN recommendation for user specific directories is the use of
shell.ShGetSpecialFolder, so use it.
For details see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderpath.asp
import getopt
def fancyopts(args, options, state):
long = []
short = ''
map = {}
dt = {}
for s, l, d, c in options:
pl = l.replace('-', '_')
map['-'+s] = map['--'+l] = pl
state[pl] = d
dt[pl] = type(d)
if not d is None and not callable(d):
if s: s += ':'
if l: l += '='
if s: short = short + s
if l: long.append(l)
opts, args = getopt.getopt(args, short, long)
for opt, arg in opts:
if dt[map[opt]] is type(fancyopts): state[map[opt]](state,map[opt],arg)
elif dt[map[opt]] is type(1): state[map[opt]] = int(arg)
elif dt[map[opt]] is type(''): state[map[opt]] = arg
elif dt[map[opt]] is type([]): state[map[opt]].append(arg)
elif dt[map[opt]] is type(None): state[map[opt]] = 1
return args