Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread DL Neil
On 29/01/19 7:11 AM, songbird wrote: DL Neil wrote: On 29/01/19 1:29 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: 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

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread songbird
DL Neil wrote: > On 29/01/19 1:29 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> 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, pos

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread songbird
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:23:31AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> > >> >> > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who >> >> > are not also system-users) - cf the

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread DL Neil
On 29/01/19 1:29 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: 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'

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:23:31AM -0500, songbird wrote: > Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > > >> > What about running a multi-tenant application (for multiple users who > >> > are not also system-users) - cf them logging-on to run their own

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread songbird
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> > 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 co

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:02:47AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > 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, grap

Re: preferences file

2019-01-28 Thread songbird
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: >>> >>

Re: preferences file

2019-01-27 Thread DL Neil
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 prefe

Re: preferences file

2019-01-27 Thread Bill Campbell
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

Re: preferences file

2019-01-26 Thread songbird
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:35:26PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> >> if the system doesn't have home directories but does have >> >> /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make >> >> sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories >> >> or fil

Re: preferences file

2019-01-26 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:35:26PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> if the system doesn't have home directories but does have > >> /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make > >> sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories > >> or files :) ). > > > > I don't that

Re: preferences file

2019-01-26 Thread songbird
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:04:51AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> if the system doesn't have home directories but does have >> /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make >> sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories >> or files :) ). > >

Re: preferences file

2019-01-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:04:51AM -0500, songbird wrote: > if the system doesn't have home directories but does have > /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make > sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories > or files :) ). I don't that that's typically wr

Re: preferences file

2019-01-25 Thread songbird
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? use as many default parameters as

Re: preferences file

2019-01-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 02:42:59PM -0500, 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/sys

Re: preferences file

2019-01-24 Thread eryk sun
On 1/24/19, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:42:59 -0500, Dave declaimed > the following: >> >>3. File location? I'm using Ubuntu and I believe that the correct >>location would be home/.config/ . What about Mac and Windows? >> > Windows? > > %UserPr

Re: preferences file

2019-01-24 Thread DL Neil
Dave, On 25/01/19 8:42 AM, 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? > [edited] > Wo

Re: preferences file

2019-01-24 Thread Chris Warrick
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 20:50, 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? Put t

preferences file

2019-01-24 Thread Dave
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? 2. File format favored and why - ini, JSON, etc? 3. Fil