On 10/26/2013 10:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> It's very common to want to know what directory you're in - it's a >> good way to find data files. > > That's a naive way to do it (though it's often good enough, for a > program only used on one system). > > For programs intending to be used across many systems, the data files > often shouldn't be placed in the same directory as the program. > > On systems conforming to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it's > forbidden: programs go in a platform-specific location > <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA>, > while platform-independent data files go in a separate location > <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA>.
What about Python applications installed in /opt? On my systems, unless a third party app is packaged and distributed by the OS package manager, it goes in /opt and AFAIK, it is blessed practice to keep all the app files in the same subdirectory tree there. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
