On 1 September 2015 at 18:00, Philipp A. <flying-sheep@web.de> wrote:
When defining a place for config files, cache files, and so on, people usually hack around in a OS-dependent, misinformed, and therefore wrong way.
Thanks to the tempfile API we at least don’t see people hardcoding /tmp/ too much.
There is a beautiful little module that does things right and is easy to use: appdirs
TI think this is a *really* good candidate for the stdlib since this functionality is useful for everything that needs a cache or config (so not only GUI and CLI applications, but also scripts that download and cache stuff from the internet for faster re-running)
probably we should build the API around pathlib, since i found myself not touching os.path with a barge pole since pathlib exists.
i’ll write a PEP about this soon :)
This sounds like a reasonable idea to me, and we can point folks to the original appdirs if they need a version-independent alternative. Depending on the amount of code involved, we could potentially consider providing this as an API *in* pathlib, rather than needing an entire new module for the standard library version of it. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia