On 1 Aug, 2010, at 17:22, Éric Araujo wrote: >> Speaking of which... Your documentation says it's named ~/unittest.cfg, >> could you make this a file in the user base (that is, the prefix where >> 'setup.py install --user' will install files)? > > Putting .pydistutils.cfg .pypirc .unittest2.cfg .idlerc and possibly > other in the user home directory (or %APPDATA% on win32 and > what-have-you on Mac) is unnecessary clutter. However, $PYTHONUSERBASE > is not the right directory for configuration files, as pointed in > http://bugs.python.org/issue7175 > > It would be nice to agree on a ~/.python (resp. %APPADATA%/Python) or > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python directory and put config files there.
~/Library/Python would be a good location on OSX, even if the 100% formally correct location would be ~/Preferences/Python (at least of framework builds, unix-style builds may want to follow the unix convention). Ronald
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