[Python-ideas] A standard location for Python configuration files.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tarek Ziadé writes:

 > I can understand the concerns about ~/.python but I find ~/.python.d/
 > rather cryptic.

True, but it's an existing convention quite widely used.  Mac OS X
itself has at least nine.  That increases by more than an order of
magnitude on my system if I don't filter "/opt/local" (MacPorts).  I'm
not even going to bother trying to count on Gentoo Linux.

 > What about a more explicit name like ~/.pythonconfig then ?

-0.5 vs /.python.d.