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Author	pitrou
Recipients	pitrou, tarek
Date	2009-10-20.15:03:36
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> That's what is returned by site.getuserbase() > > (which uses PYTHONUSERBASE, and defaults to ~/.local) Well, that makes it the user-specific equivalent of /usr or /usr/local. Do you put your configuration files in /usr/local ? Why put them in .local ? > PYTHONUSERBASE is the root of Python user-specific paths so it makes > sense to have all Python related files in there. That doesn't make sense actually, since .local isn't Python-specific. :)

> That's what is returned by site.getuserbase()
> 
> (which uses PYTHONUSERBASE, and defaults to ~/.local)

Well, that makes it the user-specific equivalent of /usr or /usr/local.
Do you put your configuration files in /usr/local ? Why put them
in .local ?

> PYTHONUSERBASE is the root of Python user-specific paths so it makes
> sense to have all Python related files in there.

That doesn't make sense actually, since .local isn't Python-specific. :)

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-10-20 15:03:38	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, tarek
2009-10-20 15:03:36	pitrou	link	issue7175 messages
2009-10-20 15:03:36	pitrou	create