flying sheep added the comment: no, sorry, but ~/.python is wrong on linux.
there exists a standard about where things belong: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html it says that configuration stuff belongs into `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, with a fallback to `~/.config/` i propose to add the `appdirs` module to the stdlib so that programs finally don’t have to guess and hack around this kind of things. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs ---------- nosy: +flying sheep _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7175> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com