Is there a standard way to get the user's config directory in python

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Is there a standard way to get the user's config directory in python

I can get home from os.path.expanduser("~")

, but is there a standard way to get the config directory? For example ~/.config

on most systems or meaning $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

in (recent?) Linux and C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Roaming

Windows) etc.

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python cross-platform

user3557327 06 Aug 15 at 21:29

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Phaneendra · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-06T23:56:23+0000

You can take advantage of the third party python library appdirs which does all the heavy lifting for you on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac)

Is there a standard way to get the user's config directory in python

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