[Python-ideas] Add appdirs module to stdlib
Philipp A.
flying-sheep at web.de
Tue Sep 1 10:00:21 CEST 2015
When defining a place for config files, cache files, and so on, people
usually hack around in a OS-dependent, misinformed, and therefore wrong way.
Thanks to the tempfile API we at least don’t see people hardcoding /tmp/
too much.
There is a beautiful little module that does things right and is easy to
use: appdirs <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs>
TI think this is a *really* good candidate for the stdlib since this
functionality is useful for everything that needs a cache or config (so not
only GUI and CLI applications, but also scripts that download and cache
stuff from the internet for faster re-running)
probably we should build the API around pathlib, since i found myself not
touching os.path with a barge pole since pathlib exists.
i’ll write a PEP about this soon :)
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