[ESR] > Environment variables work for Windows users, too -- and I believe > there's a functionally similar name/value pair facility available > through system resource forks on the Mac. I really think a profile > file is excessively heavyweight here. Environment variables or X > resources are a better medium for this kind of shared preference. > > I've actually been seriously thinking, once this is in the Python > library, of going to the Perl and Tcl people and giving them code that > would make *their* standard libraries do the right thing with the > BROWSER variable. It shouldn't only be portable across Python > applications, but across scripting languages as well -- something that > would be much harder to do with an .ini file. But on Windows, there is already a registry setting to choose the browser. No native Windows user (as opposed to transplanted Unix users like you & me :-) is going to understand why they have to set an environment variable (something they believe is old-fashioned and mostly needed for the obscure and -- in their eyes -- equally obscure "DOS box") to change a preference that the system already knows perfectly well. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)
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