On 22/05/2025 20:59, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
I recently wrote a program to do some record-keeping for me. I found
myself hard-coding a bunch of different values into it. This didn't
seem right, so I made my first use of configparser.ConfigParser().
Created the configuration file and everything
On 22/05/2025 15.27, Stefan Ram wrote:
"Michael F. Stemper" wrote or quoted:
Should I specify the location of the config file with a command-line
option, or is requiring the program to be executed in the directory
containing the configuration file considered acceptable practice?
It was me
On 5/23/25 16:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
On 23/05/2025 18:55, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 5/22/25 21:04, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
It occurs to me that it might be useful if Python provided a function
to search for a file with a given name in various directories (much
as the i
On 25/05/2025 00:18, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 5/23/25 16:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
On 23/05/2025 18:55, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 5/22/25 21:04, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
It occurs to me that it might be useful if Python provided a
function to search for a file with a give
On 5/23/25 07:35, Chuck Rhode wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2025 14:59:28 -0500
"Michael F. Stemper" wrote:
Is requiring the program to be executed in the directory containing
the configuration file considered acceptable practice?
Freedesktop.org proposes a specification for where such things ought
On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 10:05, Rob Cliffe via Python-list
wrote:
> Yes, but if I understand correctly, they all start from a single
> directory (and work downwards if required).
> My suggestion involved searching a *list* (possibly multiple lists) of
> directories.
for dir in dirs:
try: open(d
