[Python-ideas] Add appdirs module to stdlib

[Donald Stufft]

On September 1, 2015 at 5:05:14 PM, Paul Moore (p.f.moore at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 1 September 2015 at 17:19, John Wong 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.
>  
>

I forget why, but we forked appdirs when we added it to pip because of something about how it treated Windows think. Appdirs also is opinionated in situations that there isn’t a platform standard so we’d want to make sure that we agree with those opinions on all platforms.

I’m +1 on it though.

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