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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Best practice for config files?
Date: 23 May 2025 19:18:23 GMT
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>- searching a sequence of locations for your config file

  Coincidentally, I just read:

|When IDLE first starts, it attempts to read user
|configuration files in ~/.idlerc/ (~ is one's home
|directory).

 , just as another example.