Ron Adam wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: > >> >> I'm using pygame to write a game called Bombz which needs to save some >> data in a directory associated with it. In Unix/Linux I'd probably use >> "~/.bombz", in Windows something like >> "C:\Documents And Settings\<user>\Applicacation Data\Bombz". >> >> There are plenty of messages in the archives for this group about how to >> find the correct location in Windows, but what about Mac OS? There I >> don't know the correct location for this sort of thing at all. And there >> are other, more obscure systems like RISC OS (it may not have pygame but >> it definitely has python). Surely this is something that's crying out >> for an official function in os or sys. > > This works on Win XP. Not sure if it will work on Linux. > > import os > > parent = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.sys.argv[0]))[0] > file = parent + os.sep + '.bombz'
Ooh, no, I don't want saved data to go in the installation directory. In general that practice encourages people to run with Admin access, and it's about time Windows users were discouraged from that. -- The address in the Reply-To is genuine and should not be edited. See <http://www.realh.co.uk/contact.html> for more reliable contact addresses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
