Saving/retrieving user preferences

[Brian Wallis]

(my last post seemed to not get out, sorry if you see it twice)
 
This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.
 
I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).
 
Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?
 
thanks,

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brian...