In article <mailman.232.1253597842.2807.python-l...@python.org>, Wolodja Wentland <wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > >I want to: > > 1. Give administrators the freedom to install the data wherever they > want > 2. Adhere to the FHS (installing data within modules breaks it) > 3. Be able to find that data again regardless of the installation > scheme used > >1 and 2 are easily solved... It was just not possible to find the data >again. The snippet in the original code solves that.
Given your mention of FHS, it sounds like you are focused on Unix-like systems, in which case why not rely on the standard mechanisms for config files? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I won't accept a model of the universe in which free will, omniscient gods, and atheism are simultaneously true." --M -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
