On 5/23/25 07:35, Chuck Rhode wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2025 14:59:28 -0500
"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is requiring the program to be executed in the directory containing
the configuration file considered acceptable practice?
Freedesktop.org proposes a specification for where such things ought
to be located:
+ https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
Here's how I do it:
def get_xdg_config_home():
"""The configuration directory.
Normally $HOME/.config.
"""
result = pathlib.Path.home() / ".config"
return result
platformdirs is useful to handle this kind of stuff - and extends beyond
the freedesktop specification to cover Windows as well. I won't rehash
the things you can query, since they're on the page:
https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
