pypaxtor 0.1.0

Cross-platfom provisioning of home directory storage

pypaxtor: Package Storage provisioning

Simple module that provides a path to a storage location under the user home directory in a cross-platform manner.

Under MacOS this will be in ~/Library/Application Support; under Windows it will be in $HOME/AppData/Local; and under Linux it will be in ~/.local/share.

Packages using this module supply a package name when requesting a storage location. A directory with that name is created under the directory named PyPaxtor in the os-appropriate location.

Usage:

>>> import pypaxtor
>>> savedir = pypaxtor.get_storage_location('my_package')
>>> savedir  # if on Mac as user `rlyacht`
PosixPath('/Users/rlyacht/Library/Application Support/pypaxtor/my_package')
>>> with open(savedir / 'SaveFile.txt') as savefile:
...     # do stuff

If the above code is executed on a linux system, the saved file will be located at /home/rlyacht/.local/share/pypaxtor/my_package/SaveFile.txt.