[Idle-dev] config files

Mark Hammond mhammond@skippinet.com.au
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:19:55 +1100


> Question for Windows users: What is a natural place for a per-users
> config file?  On Unix, I'm looking in "%s/.idle" % os.environ['HOME'].
> HOME is defined on Guido's Windows box, but I don't know that I can
> depend on it.

I would suggest simply placing it in the Python directory - from
sys.executable.  Who ever complains that this is not sufficient gets to fix
it ;-)

Mark.