How to get path of Start Menu's Programs directory?

Question

...for current user? for all users?

I\'m working an a small program which needs to create links in the start menu. Currently I\'m hardcoding like below, but it only

Answer 1

I've heard of 2 ways of doing this. First:

from win32com.shell import shell
shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0,shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU)

Second, using the WScript.Shell object (source : http://www.mail-archive.com/python-win32@python.org/msg00992.html):

import win32com.client
objShell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
allUserProgramsMenu = objShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersPrograms")
userMenu = objShell.SpecialFolders("StartMenu")

Another source: http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2005/12/28/creating-a-start-menu-shortcut-with-powershell-and-python.aspx