On Monday, March 14, 2011 5:17:49 PM UTC-4, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Indeed that is very common, and there's been a "standard" way to do > that since before dirt. > > The standard on Unix is to look in the following places in (this > order), and use the first one you find:
On Windows it's typical to use the system registry HKLM\Sofwtare and/or HKCU\Software, or a system-wide config files in %ALLUSERSPROFILE% (probably read-only for unprivileged users) or per-user config in %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA%. Typically all settings and data will stored in a hierarchy relative to the latter, such as Publisher\App\{config}. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list