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Thu Mar 24 01:44:23 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109979.html

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> If you guys (or anyone) would like to agree on some precise rules for both
> the location of the config file and its contents and express this as a patch
> to the PEP text, I have no problem supporting it in the implementations.
>  I'd like to insist that the format of the config file was such that the
> GetPrivateProfileString() Windows function could be used to extract the data
> (eg, only '=' can be used to separate the name/value pair, case-insensitive
> and no support for string interpolation) as I have no interest in writing my
> own config file parser in C :)

In the user directory much like TortoiseHG adds a murcurial.ini file
to the users directory for basic globa config the launch could look
for a python.ini there and use to to add known paths or version
overrides on a user by user basis.

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