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

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Best practice for config files? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Date	2025-05-24 03:00 +0000
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On Fri, 23 May 2025 22:22:36 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

Good luck with that. I've got 48 directories ranging from .arduino15 
to .vscode. Then there are the 58 directories in .config.

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