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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 12, 2010, at 09:10 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

>Perhaps user configuration belongs in ~/.local/, or ~/.local/python/
>(with attendant Windows & Mac OS noises); I don't really care where it
>lands, because right now we just have a mess.  Getting it "right" with
>respect to Window's "roaming" notion and how people expect to work
>with it is... unlikely.  Picking a place is better than not, so we
>know where to find things.  But that's all it buys us.

I've missed most of this discussion while on vacation, but if ~/.local is
supposed to mirror /usr/local, then wouldn't a logical place for per-user
configuration files be ~/.local/etc/whatever.cfg?

-Barry
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