Tony Houghton wrote: > > I'm using pygame to write a game called Bombz which needs to save some > data in a directory associated with it. In Unix/Linux I'd probably use > "~/.bombz", in Windows something like > "C:\Documents And Settings\<user>\Applicacation Data\Bombz". > > There are plenty of messages in the archives for this group about how to > find the correct location in Windows, but what about Mac OS? There I > don't know the correct location for this sort of thing at all. And there > are other, more obscure systems like RISC OS (it may not have pygame but > it definitely has python). Surely this is something that's crying out > for an official function in os or sys.
This works on Win XP. Not sure if it will work on Linux. import os parent = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.sys.argv[0]))[0] file = parent + os.sep + '.bombz' Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
