Where to store settings in a cross-platform python application?

Question

Python

Where is the best place to store settings in such a gui application? So that the user does not set any paths to the settings file. And everything worked out of the box.

Answer 1

stackoverflow.com/questions/3227624/cross-platform...

Python will allow forward-slash paths on Windows, and os.path.expanduser works on Windows also, so you can get a user-specific file path using:

config_file = os.path.expanduser("~/foo.ini")