Re: [pygame] cross-platform prefs storage?

[Jacob Schwartz <kevlarx@netidea.com>]

   Hey,
This is probobly a good place to ask such a question, as most of the 
projects people do in pygame use a config file of sorts for exactly what 
you mentioned.

Python being the "batteries included" language it is has such a utility 
available, it is called: ConfigParser. You should be able to find plenty 
of info on it with google.
(For my needs I actually subclassed ConfigParser.ConfigParser to extend 
it slightly, but anyway...)

      - Jacob

> 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