[Python-ideas] Add appdirs module to stdlib

[Paul Moore]

On 1 September 2015 at 17:19, John Wong <gokoproject at gmail.com> wrote:
> But is appdirs only useful if you are running something that's more toward
> system package / desktop application? A lot of projects today create their
> own directory to save data, many use $HOME/DOTCUSTOM_DIR. So the use case of
> appdirs should be addressed.

But that is not appropriate on Windows. Appdirs gives the above on
Unix, but %APPDATA%\Appname on Windows, which conforms properly to
platform standards.

Paul