On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Dave wrote:
> I'm doing a small application and want to add user preferences. Did some
> googling to see if there are standard Python ways/tools, but it seems not so
> much. My specific questions are:
>
> 1. Best practices for a user preference file/system?
Centralize as much as possible - if there's a database
consider putting user options into that.
Standard library helps in keeping dependencies down (ConfigParser).
> 2. File format favored and why - ini, JSON, etc?
Stay with something human readable.
INI is nice, but doesn't nest well, as was said. And it does
not easily lend itself to "list" style options.
> 3. File location? I'm using Ubuntu and I believe that the correct location
> would be home/.config/<app-name> . What about Mac and Windows?
pip3 search xdg:
xdg (3.0.2) - Variables defined by the XDG Base Directory
Specification
python-xdgapp (1.0) - Python XDG for Applications
mir.xdg (1.0.0) - XDG Base Directory support
dirspec (13.08) - XDG Base and User directories implementation
xdgspec (0.1.1) - Convenient access to XDG Base Directory
Specification variables
pyxdg-open (0.2.1) - Opens URL or file in user preferred application
(xdg-open replacement).
Depending on UI toolkit:
https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.StandardPaths.html
Karsten
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