Duncan Booth wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> In Linux, config files should go into:
>>
>> ~/.<appname>/ or /etc/<appname>/
>>
>> In Windows (which versions?) then should go into the Documents And
>> Settings folder, where ever that is.
>>
>> There's no single string which can represent both of these conventions!
>
> The first of those should do nicely for both Linux and Windows:
>
>>>> os.path.normpath(os.path.expanduser('~/.appname'))
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Duncan\\.appname'
A tuple of path elements, I would think.
>>> a= ( 'c:', 'windows', 'system' )
>>> a= ( '~', 'usr', 'bin' )
>>> a= ( '..', 'src' )
You'll want a subclass too, which has a file for the last name, instead
of just folders.
>>> a= ( 'c:', 'python', 'python.exe' )
If '..' and '~' aren't universally, recognized, you'll want special
flags.
>>> DirUp= type( 'DirUp', (object,), { '__repr__': ( lambda self: 'DirUp' ) }
>>> )()
>>> a= ( DirUp, 'src' )
>>> a
(DirUp, 'src')
As for rendering them, 'win', 'unix', and 'mac' could be methods.
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