dabo Commit
Revision 6529
Date: 2011-04-04 08:09:12 -0700 (Mon, 04 Apr 2011)
Author: Jacekk
Trac: http://trac.dabodev.com/changeset/6529
Changed:
U trunk/dabo/lib/utils.py
Log:
Added getSharedAppDataDirectory() fuction, returns application shared data
directory.
Diff:
Modified: trunk/dabo/lib/utils.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/dabo/lib/utils.py 2011-04-03 17:43:01 UTC (rev 6528)
+++ trunk/dabo/lib/utils.py 2011-04-04 15:09:12 UTC (rev 6529)
@@ -125,6 +125,54 @@
return dd
+def getSharedAppDataDirectory(appName="Dabo"):
+ """
+ Return the directory where Dabo can store shared mutable data.
+
+ On \*nix, this will be something like /var/lib/dabo
+ On Windows, it will be more like c:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Dabo
+
+ This function relies on platform conventions to determine this
information. If it
+ cannot be determined (because platform conventions were circumvented),
the return
+ value will be None.
+
+ if appName is passed, the directory will be named accordingly.
+
+ This function will try to create the directory if it doesn't already
exist, but if the
+ creation of the directory fails, the return value will revert to None.
+ """
+ dd = None
+
+ if sys.platform not in ("win32",):
+ # On Unix, change appname to lower, don't allow spaces.
+ appName = "%s" % appName.lower().replace(" ", "_")
+
+ if sys.platform in ("win32",):
+ # On Windows platform, get information using shell32 library
function.
+ if shell and shellcon:
+ dd = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0,
shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, 0, 0)
+ if dd is None:
+ dd = os.environ.get("ALLUSERSPROFILE")
+ elif sys.platform in ("darwin", "mac"):
+ # We are on OS X.
+ # Maybe "/Library/Application Support" is more adequate here.
+ dd = osp.join(os.sep, "Users", "Shared")
+ else:
+ # It's probably *nix machine.
+ dd = osp.join(os.sep, "var", "lib")
+
+ if dd is not None:
+ dd = osp.join(dd, appName)
+ if not osp.exists(dd):
+ # Try to create the dabo directory.
+ try:
+ os.makedirs(dd)
+ except OSError:
+ sys.stderr.write("Couldn't create the user
setting directory (%s)." % dd)
+ dd = None
+ return dd
+
+
def dictStringify(dct):
"""
The ability to pass a properties dict to an object relies on
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