+1 for appdirs. It's a shame that more projects don't yet use it.
On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 9:03:07 AM UTC-5 Matt del Valle wrote:
> There is appdirs which does precisely what you're looking for:
>
> https://pypi.org/project/appdirs/
>
> That said, it does seem to be a core bit of functionality that would be
> nice to have in the os and pathlib modules without needing an external
> dependency. I'm not going to weigh in on the pros/cons of adding it to the
> stdlib, I'll leave that to others who I'm sure will have strong opinions on
> the matter :)
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 1:47 PM JGoutin via Python-ideas <
> python...@python.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The idea is to add 3 functions to get "config", "data" and "cache"
>> directories that are commonly used to store application files in user home
>> / system.
>>
>> This look very straightforward to get theses directories path, but in
>> practices it depends on many factors like OS, environnement variables, user
>> or system dir.
>>
>> For instance, with the "config" directory:
>> * Linux, user: os.path.join(os.getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME",
>> os.path.expanduser("~/.config")), app_name)
>> * Linux, system: os.path.join("/etc", app_name)
>> * Windows, user: os.path.join(os.path.expandvars("%APPDATA%"), app_name)
>> * Windows, system:
>> os.path.join(os.path.expandvars("%CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA%"), app_name)
>>
>> For linux, the full spec is here:
>> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>>
>> I see many applications that just use "~/.app_name" to not have to handle
>> theses cases.
>>
>>
>> The functions prototypes may look like and may be added to "shutil" (or
>> "os.path" ?):
>>
>> def getcachedir(app_name: str=None, system: bool=False):
>>
>> With
>> * app_name: The application name
>> * system: If the required directory is the systemd directory or user
>> direcotry.
>>
>>
>> This may also be implemented as an external library, but I am not sure I
>> would like add add a dependency to my projects "just for this".
>>
>>
>> I can implement this if people are interested with this feature.
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