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Re: Best practice for config files? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Best practice for config files? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Date	2025-05-23 22:22 +0000
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On 23 May 2025 19:18:23 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Coincidentally, I just read:
> 
> |When IDLE first starts, it attempts to read user |configuration files
> in ~/.idlerc/ (~ is one's home |directory).

Apps should be abiding by the XDG spec nowadays, and stop cluttering up 
users’ home directories.

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