Re: Best practice for config files?

On 5/23/25 07:35, Chuck Rhode wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2025 14:59:28 -0500
> "Michael F. Stemper" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Is requiring the program to be executed in the directory containing
>> the configuration file considered acceptable practice?
> 
> Freedesktop.org proposes a specification for where such things ought
> to be located:
> 
> + https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
> 
> Here's how I do it:
> 
>> def get_xdg_config_home():
> 
>>      """The configuration directory.
> 
>>      Normally $HOME/.config.
> 
>>      """
> 
>>      result = pathlib.Path.home() / ".config"
>>      return result

platformdirs is useful to handle this kind of stuff - and extends beyond 
the freedesktop specification to cover Windows as well.  I won't rehash 
the things you can query, since they're on the page:

https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/