On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 11:08, windhorn <aewindh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have an older laptop I use for programming, particularly Python and Octave, > running a variety of Debian Linux, and I am curious if there is a "standard" > place in the file system to store this type of program file. OK, I know they > should go in a repository and be managed by an IDE but this seems like way > overkill for the kind of programming that I do, normally a single file. Any > suggestions welcome, thanks. >
Standard? No. Do whatever you like :) But there are a few useful conventions. Personally, I keep all my random tools in a shed - specifically, ~/shed, which is a single git repository in which I throw all sorts of random junk, mostly those single-file scripts that don't have any other real identity. (Some of them do end up growing more files. It's rather ill-defined as a concept.) You could also just leave them in your home directory. That's pretty decent too. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list