Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Lance Gamet <lance@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the
program should connect to.

On Unix this might be a .file, on windows this could be in the registry,
or an ini file or an xml file in ProgramData or AppData or something.

Is there a pythony way to store such config data, perhaps there is
already a standard python package for such a purpose?

I've found

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html

To be easy to use and built in. It makes human readable / editable
..ini - like files.

As for where to store it, I use os.path.expanduser("~") to find the
base directory and a bit of platform specific code.

Something like this snippet

self.is_windows = sys.platform == 'win32'
self.home = os.path.expanduser("~")
if self.is_windows:
self.config_dir = os.path.join(self.home, "Application Data", self.NAME)
else:
self.config_dir = os.path.join(self.home, "."+self.NAME)
if not os.path.isdir(self.config_dir):
os.makedirs(self.config_dir, mode=0700)
self.config_file = os.path.join(self.config_dir, "config")

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick
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