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Author	flying sheep
Recipients	barry, doko, eric.araujo, flying sheep, fwierzbicki, georg.brandl, glyph, lemburg, martin.panter, michael.foord, ned.deily, pitrou, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren, tarek
Date	2015-09-01.07:48:05
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Message-id	<1441093685.23.0.681738495054.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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no, sorry, but ~/.python is wrong on linux. there exists a standard about where things belong: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html it says that configuration stuff belongs into `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, with a fallback to `~/.config/` i propose to add the `appdirs` module to the stdlib so that programs finally don’t have to guess and hack around this kind of things. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs

no, sorry, but ~/.python is wrong on linux.

there exists a standard about where things belong:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

it says that configuration stuff belongs into `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, with a fallback to `~/.config/`

i propose to add the `appdirs` module to the stdlib so that programs finally don’t have to guess and hack around this kind of things.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-09-01 07:48:05	flying sheep	set	recipients: + flying sheep, lemburg, barry, georg.brandl, doko, ronaldoussoren, pitrou, tarek, fwierzbicki, ned.deily, glyph, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, michael.foord, martin.panter
2015-09-01 07:48:05	flying sheep	set	messageid: <1441093685.23.0.681738495054.issue7175@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-09-01 07:48:05	flying sheep	link	issue7175 messages
2015-09-01 07:48:05	flying sheep	create