Re: Best practice for config files? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Fri, 23 May 2025 22:22:36 -0000 (UTC)

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On 23 May 2025 19:18:23 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Coincidentally, I just read:
> 
> |When IDLE first starts, it attempts to read user |configuration files
> in ~/.idlerc/ (~ is one's home |directory).

Apps should be abiding by the XDG spec nowadays, and stop cluttering up 
users’ home directories.