[Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files

[Michael Foord]

On 11/08/2010 16:22, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hello list
>
> Tarek opened a distutils bugs in http://bugs.python.org/issue7175 that
> evolved into a discussion about the proper location to use for config files.
>
> Distutils uses [.]pydistutils.cfg and .pypirc, and now unittest2 has a
> config file too.
>    

IDLE has a config directory too - currently .idlerc in ~ (on Mac OS X at 
any rate).

Michael

> It would be nice to define one standard location for config files used
> by stdlib modules, and maybe also by third-party programs related
> closely to Python development (testing tools, static code checkers and
> the like), in a way that doesn’t clutter the user home directory with a
> dozen dotfiles while still being easily found.
>
> (The Unix notions of dotfiles and home directory have to be adapted to
> use non-dotfiles in some standard place on various Windows. The Mac
> experts disagree on the right directory to use.)
>
> Tarek, Antoine, RDM, MAL were +1 on using ~/.python (whether to use
> .pythonx.y or .python/x.y is a subissue to discuss after general agreement).
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Regards
>
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