I've written a program. To install this program, I'm going to need to initialize some stuff for the users environment, specifically the name/ location of an internal state file.
Currently, I'm hard coding the location of this file, but that's in- elegant. What I'd like to do is just ask the user, with a suggested default. My question is how do I save this answer? It's kind of a chicken-and- egg problem. The only solution I've thought of is to write something that's self modifying, but that's ugly (go in, grep for this variable initialization, re-write that line with the new value, quit). Is there a better way to do this? There almost has to be... If not, are there some 'best practices' on how to do the self- modification? Thanks for any help; Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
