Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Best practice for config files? Date: 22 May 2025 20:33:12 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 14 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <100nvn0$3kq1t$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de BgT3Ev+4YYRJhn94UDY6TQJGmI5jBLudlsUjTgCEDgQXze Cancel-Lock: sha1:S9iRDYsvb6b/WuLzMLKarNIFSC8= sha256:vDRFmsDEeiKW4s3rEMd2dseBI4pPEEaX064FYJUdDck= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:197491 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >On Linux: >~/.config/YourAppName But don't just build this path manually as the proper code for Linux should follow the XDG convention. I hope that the library does this correctly! What I actually found on my harddisk was a "platformdirs" package from "setuptools", which seems to know about XDG. (I not sure whether the separated "platformdirs" from PyPI is the same.)