[issue7175] Define a standard location and API for configuration files

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On Sep 01, 2015, at 07:15 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

>There are other advantages to following the XDG spec.  If we follow it
>correctly (and not, like Barry suggested, start adding random other
>directories like ~/.python)

I was really just suggesting reading from other locations for backward
compatibility.

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