Fwd: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
Thomas Kluyver
thomas at kluyver.me.uk
Thu Dec 6 05:43:02 PST 2012
On 6 December 2012 00:21, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> I still think the basic way to get the runtime directory should raise an
> error if the environment variable isn't set - after all, PyXDG is an
> implementation of the spec. I might offer a wrapper function with a
> strict=True/False parameter, which would fall back on /tmp/app-username.
This felt like the right balance of strictness and convenience - by
default, it will raise an error, but the caller can pass strict=False to
get an automatic fallback. Here's the new documentation:
http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/en/latest/basedirectory.html#runtime-directory
Thanks,
Thomas
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