Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Best practice for config files? Date: 23 May 2025 19:18:23 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 12 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <100nvn0$3kq1t$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4N7rEW7hxV0g4i3F9QPCXwrriKW+ZFRZiKKiudnEuNfypu Cancel-Lock: sha1:TLeG/OR7U/1zjQaznWLkHLEINZM= sha256:kEA845wy8lVLis+s7BxkJW4YDPVNaAPA5ufzxGIjh0E= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US 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.