[Python-ideas] Re: Applications user/system directories functions

2021-12-15 Thread JGoutin via Python-ideas
Hello, Thanks for the suggested packages. "platfromdirs" look to be a fork of "appdirs", both seems to support many OS and cases. That look to be good non stdlib solutions. The "xdg" module seem to only support Linux, but provides more dirs on it. __

[Python-ideas] Applications user/system directories functions

2021-12-15 Thread JGoutin via Python-ideas
Hello, The idea is to add 3 functions to get "config", "data" and "cache" directories that are commonly used to store application files in user home / system. This look very straightforward to get theses directories path, but in practices it depends on many factors like OS, environnement variab