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Thu Sep 22 10:29:01 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/307212.html

rbt <rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:03 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
>> I'm using pygame to write a game called Bombz which needs to save some
>> data in a directory associated with it. In Unix/Linux I'd probably use
>> "~/.bombz", in Windows something like
>> "C:\Documents And Settings\<user>\Applicacation Data\Bombz".
>> 
>> There are plenty of messages in the archives for this group about how to
>> find the correct location in Windows, but what about Mac OS?
>
> ~/.bombz works equally well on OSX.

But Mac users - as opposed to Unix geeks - will expect to find it in
~/Library/Application Support/Bombz.

Us unix geeks can symlink that to ~/.bombz if we use the application
on both platforms.

   <mike
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