larroy commented on a change in pull request #11636: [WIP] set MXNET_DATA_DIR as base for downloaded models through base.data_dir() URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11636#discussion_r201517185
########## File path: python/mxnet/base.py ########## @@ -47,6 +48,32 @@ integer_types = (int, long, np.int32, np.int64) py_str = lambda x: x + +def data_dir_default(): + """ + + :return: default data directory depending on the platform and environment variables + """ + system = platform.system() + if system == 'Windows': + return os.environ.get('APPDATA') + elif system == 'Linux' or system == 'Darwin': + if 'XDG_DATA_HOME'in os.environ: Review comment: freedesktop convention https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services