[pygame] cross-platform prefs storage?

[Jack Nutting <jn_list@rebisoft.com>]

This is not strictly pygame-related, but since most pygame projects 
support multiple platforms to a certain degree, some of you have 
probably encountered this issue before...

What I'm thinking about is storage of small amounts of user-specific 
data, for example preferences for video settings and control settings, 
or storage of a high-score table.  Under Unix you'd usually put 
everything in a ~/.myprogram file/dir, on Mac OS X you can either do 
that or use  NSUserDefaults.  I guess I have two questions:

- Where do Windows programs ususally store these things?  The registry 
(blah)?  A .ini file in the launch directory (double blah)?

- Has anyone written/seen a python wrapper for this type of prefs 
storage that will take account of the platform and do the right thing?

This seems like such a common need, it seems pointless to reinvent the 
wheel.

//jack