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

[Georg Brandl]

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> I don't find this argument very serious. The Python interpreter reclaiming the
>> ~/.python directory only seems natural and reasonable to me. If we follow your
>> argument we can't introduce *any* new location just because someone might
>> already use it. This is quite unacceptable.

+1

> The path ~/.python is a so obvious choice for a file or directory that
> contains Python specific stuff that it probably used by lots of people.

Such as?  What program would use .python with a good reason?  I'd like to
see some proof that anything is using .python.  I've looked at Google
codesearch, and the only thing the string constant ".python" seems to be
used for is an alternate file name extension.

Georg


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