eryksun added the comment:
On Windows, using the shell's [Known Folders API][1] is preferred. For Python
3.6+, an extension module could wrap SHGetKnownFolderPath and provide a dict of
KNOWNFOLDERID values such as FOLDERID_RoamingAppData.
On Linux, there's the [XDG Base Directory Specification][2]. The application
directory is created in one or more of the following directories {default in
brackets}: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME {~/.config}, $XDG_DATA_HOME {~/.local/share}, and
$XDG_CACHE_HOME {~/.cache}.
What about Mac OS X?
[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776911
[2]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest
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nosy: +eryksun
versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.4
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