On 2 September 2015 at 05:31, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
The problem with Windows is that the standard is to put things in an invisible directory, which makes it difficult to tell people, especially non-experts, to edit a file in the directory.
As you say, that's an issue with Windows, not with the library (if indeed it *is* an issue with Windows - the users I've dealt with don't have huge problems with things in appdata, although they would usually expect the program to offer a config dialog rather than making them edit the file by hand - but that's off-topic for this thread).
Games that expect people to edit .ini files put them in the game directory.
That's a common choice on Windows, certainly (relating to historical issues where the official standards used to be a lot more user-hostile). It may well-be that the appdirs module should offer an "app-local" (or "portable", if you prefer) scheme in addition to the default scheme. Paul