DL Neil wrote: > On 25/01/19 4:22 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, Dave wrote: >>> I'm doing a small application and want to add user preferences. Did some >>> googling to see if there are standard Python ways/tools, but it seems not so >>> much. My specific questions are: >>> >>> 1. Best practices for a user preference file/system? >> >> Generally I put them in the user's $HOME or $HOME/etc directory >> with appropriate permissions unless working in a virtual >> environement. > > Good idea. > > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who > are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own. It is > appropriate, possibly even "required" to keep Fred's config file, > reports, graphs, logs, etc; separate from Barney's. Ideally they will > not be sub-dirs of the application/package.
if it is per user defined then $HOME/.config/<app-name>, $HOME/.local/share/<app-name> and any temporary data can go in $HOME/.cache/<app-name> will do it for posix on Windows there is the per user app stuff which i haven't sorted out yet. $HOME changes per user login name change. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
