What's the perfect (OS independent) way of storing filepaths ?
Duncan Booth
duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Sun Oct 19 11:40:32 EDT 2008
Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> In Linux, config files should go into:
>
> ~/.<appname>/ or /etc/<appname>/
>
> In Windows (which versions?) then should go into the Documents And
> Settings folder, where ever that is.
>
> There's no single string which can represent both of these conventions!
The first of those should do nicely for both Linux and Windows:
>>> os.path.normpath(os.path.expanduser('~/.appname'))
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Duncan\\.appname'
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