Steven D'Aprano schreef:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:06 +0000, Duncan Booth wrote:
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:40:32 +0000, 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'
Except Windows users will be wondering why they have a directory
starting with '.' in their home directory. Dot to make files hidden is
not AFAIK supported by Windows.
The leading dot doesn't make the files hidden on Windows, but there's no
reason why you can't create files/folders with a leading dot and many
programs do just that. On the machine I'm on right now, 'dir .*' shows
me:
[snip]
And 75% [1] of average Windows users will either delete the file, move it
to a more convenient[2] location, or edit the file name to remove the dot.
I don't think so: the average Windows user will never even see the files
in that directory; they only see the files in the 'Desktop' and 'My
Documents' folders.
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