How to get Desktop location?

On Unix or Linux:

import os
desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~')), 'Desktop') 

on Windows:

import os
desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['USERPROFILE']), 'Desktop') 

and to add in your command:

shutil.copy(txtName, desktop)

I can not comment yet, but solutions based on joining location to a user path with ‘Desktop’ have limited appliance because Desktop could and often is being remapped to a non-system drive.
To get real location a windows registry should be used… or special functions via ctypes like https://stackoverflow.com/a/626927/7273599

This works on both Windows and Linux:

import os
desktop = os.path.expanduser("~/Desktop")

# the above is valid on Windows (after 7) but if you want it in os normalized form:
desktop = os.path.normpath(os.path.expanduser("~/Desktop"))

Try this:

import os
file1 =os.environ["HOMEPATH"] + "Desktopmyfile.txt" 

All those answers are intrinsecally wrong : they only work for english sessions.

You should check the XDG directories instead of supposing it’s always 'Desktop'.

Here’s the correct answer: How to get users desktop path in python independent of language install (linux)

For 3.5+ you can use pathlib:

import pathlib

desktop = pathlib.Path.home() / 'Desktop'

Just an addendum to @tpearse accepted answer:

In an embedded environment (c++ programm calling a python environment)

os.path.join(os.environ["HOMEPATH"], "Desktop")

was the only one that worked. Seems like

os.path.expanduser("~/Desktop")

does not return a usable path for the embedded environment (at least not in my one; But some environmental settings in visual studio could be missing in my setup)

Simple and Elegant Try this to access file in Desktop:

import os
import pathlib
import pandas as pd

desktop = pathlib.Path.home() / 'Desktop' / "Panda's" / 'data'
print(desktop) #check you path correct ?
data = pd.read_csv(os.path.joinn(desktop),'survey_results_public.csv')

Congrants!

Simple and Elegant Try this to access file in Desktop:

import os
import pathlib
import pandas as pd

desktop = pathlib.Path.home() / 'Desktop' / "Panda's" / 'data'
print(desktop) #check you path correct ?
data = pd.read_csv(os.path.join(desktop,'survey_results_public.csv'),engine='c')

Congrants!

I have a like problem. I want save a TXT file in Desktop, but how i specificate the local if i have OneDrive?

Because Path.home() just bring me "C:UsersmyUserDesktop", and i want what other peoples use my code, but its not everyone what have OneDrive.Has as specificate automatically?