-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01.09.2015 10:00, Philipp A. 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 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/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 :)
Is anyone working on this? I would really like to see the functionality discussed in this thread. I have no deep knowledge about Windows, MacOS or FreeBSD though, which would make it hard for me to take this on my own. If we could get together a team with knowledgeable people from each platform, that would be great. best regards, jwi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWI4NSAAoJEMBiAyWXYliKfdwP/Rgi2w2ZyZA2tfFcjZMxh6ox niJYz3Uq2Jcci7VJlvPIObu9ioS1pdc/KdLIqMCO9BZzkm0+V/d9/6TLecBtE73s MDFBkVbBooK/km2xx1HCnfj3vT+Eh8+blPDwNABRKzVdGnuGLfZdQHGvw16NDYPI zKcBboS8Xp1F7Njwdm3ozlW34A5ApLMZV0D2WrtrhZk3PBTbjNVBmKqVdNrBzsyO F04F/8kPLoANBj4tBuI9O1KjnMbfwCN7snbu6LlDwhT8pAGW6kpTzOjxRZZdbjD6 NH6NyLbTjIWgVP8JgQ766vGXAwiatrd0ECQWoYHXgAhuP//KVgfmTBpIqoPPME7Y eGmM8XclzI4FS5ud87bgf9Zgr4xZcycX5J/lcXIp/ZPAajHfyWxVbJPHZDocNw7V ZDlEEfIfkbU4aT5faQutPF95eZgwXOxloOSNZI+u7a8Ke8iaTjeoawtksBlVzYbb 6MOLP6xdVXc+vg/9FFwbiDrLuOQiGv2YYENY2Lj3lMw6jvj6GL31XDKhVcyQQeJn yE1ylKwrBQzq2hw57vLwCJD9Tdn0qgOjA74pgl7SHPvkFjNpPXre5YkMTUxI13jI MGof+oR32WHLaA+Kt0dByzNSJPSdzubc4/zKKAT49G96znXua2MlM1nDdrRmhbHo uihjjtEQzIZ1O/uNMV2n =UtH/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----