Having a lot of dotfiles in ~ can get really annoying. It'd be nice to see bpython use freedesktop's XDG specification for configuration files etc. (see http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html).

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Freedesktop.org offers a python library for easy XDG integration (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg), but since it isn't available on PyPI and the requirement is only small, it might be wiser just to handle it manually.

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I took a look at the code this morning and changed everything which ack told me pertained to finding the config file. I put my diffs on bpaste and I'll link them here. I doubt they'll be perfect, but it's a start at least.

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args.py -- http://bpaste.net/raw/2056/
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config.py -- http://bpaste.net/raw/2055/
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cli.py -- http://bpaste.net/raw/2060/

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/issue/91
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• Originally Created At: 2010-01-04T15:23:54.051