Where to put the data files of a python project?

Question

Python

Hello.
There is a project, a side effect of the work, which are various .txt files, a database and the like. In the course of work, they will somehow change.
To be honest, I don't know where to put them. Specifying an absolute path to them is not an option, and besides, I would not like to clutter up user space and put everything directly in the HOME folder.
I didn’t come up with anything better than just throwing it into the installation folder along with the project itself - as it is. But it did not work, because setuptools refuses to take them with it during installation.
Maybe someone will tell you where it is better to put such things, or where ready-made projects put their configs.

Answer 1

$HOME/.config/$U_APP_NAME/{data,config,etc}