Steve Holden wrote: > 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' >> >> Cheers, >> Ron >> > Since you've gone to the trouble to use os.path functions why not use > > file = os.path.join(parent, 'bombz')
It just didn't come to mind first. I don't use os.path that often. Thanks. :-) > regards > Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
