On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:25:03 am Alan Gauld wrote: >> "R. Alan Monroe" <amon...@columbus.rr.com> wrote >> >> >> directory, I suppose. Under windows, probably the registry. >> >> There's the _winreg and configparser modules. >> > >> > Consider using the %USERPROFILE% environment variable rather than >> > the >> > registry. >> >> How would that work? That is just a single variable that points >> to the users Settings folder. Effectively their home directory in >> unix terms, so you could store the config file there. But >> you couldn't store the kind of data you would store in the >> registry? >> >> I'm confused. > > [snip explanation of environment variables] > > So unless I've missed something exceedingly subtle, writing to > environment variables is not a solution to the problem of saving > default values. It's not even part of a solution. >
Just speculation here, but.. I suppose what he's suggesting is that you use ConfigParser on both linux and windows, rather than the registry on one platform and a config file on the other. on windows you'd then place the config file in the %USERPROFILE% directory. It's actually a rather good idea, not having to bother with the registry saves you a lot of work. Hugo _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
