[Python-ideas] Add appdirs module to stdlib

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 06:05:12 CEST 2015


On 2 September 2015 at 07:22, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> All of this is probably as much an argument *for* providing the correct
> functionality as a standard thing as it is against, but any PEP here
> probably needs to be thorough about citing the research to show that
> it's actually getting the various platform standards correct.

We'd also want to state up front that non-compliance with the relevant
platform standards *is* considered a bug, so it may change in
maintenance releases in order to support changes in the platform
standards.

Cheers,
Nick.

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