Tom E H wrote: > My Python application includes some data files that need to be accessed by > modules I distribute with it. > > Where can I put them, and how should I arrange my code, so that it works > across platforms? > > On Linux, I could install the data to "/usr/lib/myprogram/datafile", and > on Windows to "datafile" relative to where the executable (made by > py2exe) is installed. Then I could detect the operating system, and choose > appropriately. > > To be that explicit seems undesirable. Any cleverer ideas? > > Tom > > (Please CC me on replies: I'm not subscribed. The From address is munged) > If you aren't ubscribed then the only person who is going to copy you on email is someone complaining about your presumptuousness in assuming they'd happily want to spend time trimming your email address just so you won't be bothered by the spam plagie.
Sorry, the question seems to have completely gone out of my head ... regards Steeve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
