Finding application data after install - a solution?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.232.1253597842.2807.python-list at python.org>,
Wolodja Wentland  <wentland at 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?
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