Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but > I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like > configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the > program should connect to. > > On Unix this might be a .file, on windows this could be in the registry, > or an ini file or an xml file in ProgramData or AppData or something. > > Is there a pythony way to store such config data, perhaps there is > already a standard python package for such a purpose?
I've found http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html To be easy to use and built in. It makes human readable / editable .ini - like files. As for where to store it, I use os.path.expanduser("~") to find the base directory and a bit of platform specific code. Something like this snippet self.is_windows = sys.platform == 'win32' self.home = os.path.expanduser("~") if self.is_windows: self.config_dir = os.path.join(self.home, "Application Data", self.NAME) else: self.config_dir = os.path.join(self.home, "."+self.NAME) if not os.path.isdir(self.config_dir): os.makedirs(self.config_dir, mode=0700) self.config_file = os.path.join(self.config_dir, "config") -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
