In message <mailman.2428.1246465065.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2009-07-01 01:04, Carl Banks wrote: >> >> The most common way I've seen people work around this issue is to >> throw their data files into the package directories. Yuck. > > Huh. I always found that to be a more elegant solution than hardcoding the > data location into the program at install-time. Think in terms of a portable OS, written to run on multiple architectures. Read-only data is architecture-dependent, that's why it pays to separate it from the code. Otherwise you end up with a system that needs a reinstall every time the hardware changes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
