Announcing config-path an OS independent configuration file paths

[Paul Moore]

How does this compare to the existing appdirs module on PyPI?

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 13:15, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>
> See https://pypi.org/project/config-path/ for documentation.
>
> Install using pip:
>
>         python -m pip install config-path
>
> I write tools that run on macOS, Unix and Windows systems.
> Each operating system has its own conventions on where config
> files should be stored. Following the conventions is not always
> straight forward.
>
> After a question raised here on Python users about config file locations
> I was inspired to write this module to help with that problem.
>
> config_path library works out which path to use for configuration folders
> and files in an operating system independent way.
>
> Each operating system has particular conventions for where an application
> is expected to stores it configuration. The information provided to ConfigPath
> is used to figure out an appropriate file path or folder path for the application's
> configuration data.
>
> Supports Windows, macOS and most unix systems using the 'XDG Base Directory Specification'.
>
> Example for the "widget" app from "example.com" that uses JSON for its config:
>
> from config_path import ConfigPath
> conf_path = ConfigPath( 'example.com', 'widget', '.json' )
>
> path = conf_path.saveFilePath( mkdir=True )
> with path.open() as f:
>         f.write( config_data )
>
> And to read the config:
>
> path = conf_path.readFilePath()
> if path is not None:
>         # path exists and config can be read
>         with path.open() as f:
>                 config = json.loads( f )
> else:
>         config = default_config
>
> Barry
>
>
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