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authorEddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>2013-03-19 22:59:43 +0200
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 ActiveState Software Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Eddy Petrișor
+
+"""Utilities for determining application-specific dirs.
+
+See <http://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs> for details and usage.
+"""
+# Dev Notes:
+# - MSDN on where to store app data files:
+# http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310294#XSLTH3194121123120121120120
+# - Mac OS X: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/index.html
+# - XDG spec for Un*x: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
+
+__version_info__ = (1, 3, 0)
+__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, __version_info__))
+
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
+
+if PY3:
+ unicode = str
+
+
+
+def user_data_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, roaming=False):
+ r"""Return full path to the user-specific data dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "roaming" (boolean, default False) can be set True to use the Windows
+ roaming appdata directory. That means that for users on a Windows
+ network setup for roaming profiles, this user data will be
+ sync'd on login. See
+ <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489(WS.10).aspx>
+ for a discussion of issues.
+
+ Typical user data directories are:
+ Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/<AppName>
+ Unix: ~/.local/share/<AppName> # or in $XDG_DATA_HOME, if defined
+ Win XP (not roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
+ Win XP (roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
+ Win 7 (not roaming): C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
+ Win 7 (roaming): C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
+
+ For Unix, we follow the XDG spec and support $XDG_DATA_HOME.
+ That means, by deafult "~/.local/share/<AppName>".
+ """
+ if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+ if appauthor is None:
+ appauthor = appname
+ const = roaming and "CSIDL_APPDATA" or "CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA"
+ path = os.path.normpath(_get_win_folder(const))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appauthor, appname)
+ elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ path = os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/')
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ else:
+ path = os.getenv('XDG_DATA_HOME', os.path.expanduser("~/.local/share"))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ return path
+
+
+def site_data_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, multipath=False):
+ """Return full path to the user-shared data dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "multipath" is an optional parameter only applicable to *nix
+ which indicates that the entire list of data dirs should be
+ returned. By default, the first item from XDG_DATA_DIRS is
+ returned, or '/usr/local/share/<AppName>',
+ if XDG_DATA_DIRS is not set
+
+ Typical user data directories are:
+ Mac OS X: /Library/Application Support/<AppName>
+ Unix: /usr/local/share/<AppName> or /usr/share/<AppName>
+ Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>
+ Vista: (Fail! "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden *system* directory on Vista.)
+ Win 7: C:\ProgramData\<AppAuthor>\<AppName> # Hidden, but writeable on Win 7.
+
+ For Unix, this is using the $XDG_DATA_DIRS[0] default.
+
+ WARNING: Do not use this on Windows. See the Vista-Fail note above for why.
+ """
+ if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+ if appauthor is None:
+ appauthor = appname
+ path = os.path.normpath(_get_win_folder("CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA"))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appauthor, appname)
+ elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ path = os.path.expanduser('/Library/Application Support')
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ else:
+ # XDG default for $XDG_DATA_DIRS
+ # only first, if multipath is False
+ path = os.getenv('XDG_DATA_DIRS',
+ os.pathsep.join(['/usr/local/share', '/usr/share']))
+ pathlist = [ os.path.expanduser(x.rstrip(os.sep)) for x in path.split(os.pathsep) ]
+ if appname:
+ if version:
+ appname = os.path.join(appname, version)
+ pathlist = [ os.sep.join([x, appname]) for x in pathlist ]
+
+ if multipath:
+ path = os.pathsep.join(pathlist)
+ else:
+ path = pathlist[0]
+ return path
+
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ return path
+
+
+def user_config_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, roaming=False):
+ r"""Return full path to the user-specific config dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "roaming" (boolean, default False) can be set True to use the Windows
+ roaming appdata directory. That means that for users on a Windows
+ network setup for roaming profiles, this user data will be
+ sync'd on login. See
+ <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489(WS.10).aspx>
+ for a discussion of issues.
+
+ Typical user data directories are:
+ Mac OS X: same as user_data_dir
+ Unix: ~/.config/<AppName> # or in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, if defined
+ Win *: same as user_data_dir
+
+ For Unix, we follow the XDG spec and support $XDG_DATA_HOME.
+ That means, by deafult "~/.local/share/<AppName>".
+ """
+ if sys.platform.startswith("win") or sys.platform == "darwin":
+ path = user_data_dir(appname, appauthor, None, roaming)
+ else:
+ path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', os.path.expanduser("~/.config"))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ return path
+
+
+def site_config_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, multipath=False):
+ """Return full path to the user-shared data dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "multipath" is an optional parameter only applicable to *nix
+ which indicates that the entire list of config dirs should be
+ returned. By default, the first item from XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is
+ returned, or '/etc/xdg/<AppName>', if XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is not set
+
+ Typical user data directories are:
+ Mac OS X: same as site_data_dir
+ Unix: /etc/xdg/<AppName> or $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[i]/<AppName> for each value in
+ $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
+ Win *: same as site_data_dir
+ Vista: (Fail! "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden *system* directory on Vista.)
+
+ For Unix, this is using the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[0] default, if multipath=False
+
+ WARNING: Do not use this on Windows. See the Vista-Fail note above for why.
+ """
+ if (sys.platform.startswith("win")) or (sys.platform == 'darwin'):
+ path = site_data_dir(appname, appauthor)
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ else:
+ # XDG default for $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
+ # only first, if multipath is False
+ path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_DIRS', '/etc/xdg')
+ pathlist = [ os.path.expanduser(x.rstrip(os.sep)) for x in path.split(os.pathsep) ]
+ if appname:
+ if version:
+ appname = os.path.join(appname, version)
+ pathlist = [ os.sep.join([x, appname]) for x in pathlist ]
+
+ if multipath:
+ path = os.pathsep.join(pathlist)
+ else:
+ path = pathlist[0]
+ return path
+
+def user_cache_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, opinion=True):
+ r"""Return full path to the user-specific cache dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "opinion" (boolean) can be False to disable the appending of
+ "Cache" to the base app data dir for Windows. See
+ discussion below.
+
+ Typical user cache directories are:
+ Mac OS X: ~/Library/Caches/<AppName>
+ Unix: ~/.cache/<AppName> (XDG default)
+ Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Cache
+ Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Cache
+
+ On Windows the only suggestion in the MSDN docs is that local settings go in
+ the `CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA` directory. This is identical to the non-roaming
+ app data dir (the default returned by `user_data_dir` above). Apps typically
+ put cache data somewhere *under* the given dir here. Some examples:
+ ...\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<ProfileName>\Cache
+ ...\Acme\SuperApp\Cache\1.0
+ OPINION: This function appends "Cache" to the `CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA` value.
+ This can be disabled with the `opinion=False` option.
+ """
+ if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+ if appauthor is None:
+ appauthor = appname
+ path = os.path.normpath(_get_win_folder("CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA"))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appauthor, appname)
+ if opinion:
+ path = os.path.join(path, "Cache")
+ elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ path = os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Caches')
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ else:
+ path = os.getenv('XDG_CACHE_HOME', os.path.expanduser('~/.cache'))
+ if appname:
+ path = os.path.join(path, appname)
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ return path
+
+def user_log_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, opinion=True):
+ r"""Return full path to the user-specific log dir for this application.
+
+ "appname" is the name of application.
+ If None, just the system directory is returned.
+ "appauthor" (only required and used on Windows) is the name of the
+ appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
+ it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
+ "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
+ path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
+ of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
+ would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
+ Only applied when appname is present.
+ "opinion" (boolean) can be False to disable the appending of
+ "Logs" to the base app data dir for Windows, and "log" to the
+ base cache dir for Unix. See discussion below.
+
+ Typical user cache directories are:
+ Mac OS X: ~/Library/Logs/<AppName>
+ Unix: ~/.cache/<AppName>/log # or under $XDG_CACHE_HOME if defined
+ Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Logs
+ Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Logs
+
+ On Windows the only suggestion in the MSDN docs is that local settings
+ go in the `CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA` directory. (Note: I'm interested in
+ examples of what some windows apps use for a logs dir.)
+
+ OPINION: This function appends "Logs" to the `CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA`
+ value for Windows and appends "log" to the user cache dir for Unix.
+ This can be disabled with the `opinion=False` option.
+ """
+ if sys.platform == "darwin":
+ path = os.path.join(
+ os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Logs'),
+ appname)
+ elif sys.platform == "win32":
+ path = user_data_dir(appname, appauthor, version); version=False
+ if opinion:
+ path = os.path.join(path, "Logs")
+ else:
+ path = user_cache_dir(appname, appauthor, version); version=False
+ if opinion:
+ path = os.path.join(path, "log")
+ if appname and version:
+ path = os.path.join(path, version)
+ return path
+
+
+class AppDirs(object):
+ """Convenience wrapper for getting application dirs."""
+ def __init__(self, appname, appauthor=None, version=None,
+ roaming=False, multipath=False):
+ self.appname = appname
+ self.appauthor = appauthor
+ self.version = version
+ self.roaming = roaming
+ self.multipath = multipath
+ @property
+ def user_data_dir(self):
+ return user_data_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version, roaming=self.roaming)
+ @property
+ def site_data_dir(self):
+ return site_data_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version, multipath=self.multipath)
+ @property
+ def user_config_dir(self):
+ return user_config_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version, roaming=self.roaming)
+ @property
+ def site_config_dir(self):
+ return site_data_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version, multipath=self.multipath)
+ @property
+ def user_cache_dir(self):
+ return user_cache_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version)
+ @property
+ def user_log_dir(self):
+ return user_log_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
+ version=self.version)
+
+
+
+
+#---- internal support stuff
+
+def _get_win_folder_from_registry(csidl_name):
+ """This is a fallback technique at best. I'm not sure if using the
+ registry for this guarantees us the correct answer for all CSIDL_*
+ names.
+ """
+ import _winreg
+
+ shell_folder_name = {
+ "CSIDL_APPDATA": "AppData",
+ "CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA": "Common AppData",
+ "CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA": "Local AppData",
+ }[csidl_name]
+
+ key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
+ r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders")
+ dir, type = _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, shell_folder_name)
+ return dir
+
+def _get_win_folder_with_pywin32(csidl_name):
+ from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
+ dir = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, getattr(shellcon, csidl_name), 0, 0)
+ # Try to make this a unicode path because SHGetFolderPath does
+ # not return unicode strings when there is unicode data in the
+ # path.
+ try:
+ dir = unicode(dir)
+
+ # Downgrade to short path name if have highbit chars. See
+ # <http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=85099>.
+ has_high_char = False
+ for c in dir:
+ if ord(c) > 255:
+ has_high_char = True
+ break
+ if has_high_char:
+ try:
+ import win32api
+ dir = win32api.GetShortPathName(dir)
+ except ImportError:
+ pass
+ except UnicodeError:
+ pass
+ return dir
+
+def _get_win_folder_with_ctypes(csidl_name):
+ import ctypes
+
+ csidl_const = {
+ "CSIDL_APPDATA": 26,
+ "CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA": 35,
+ "CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA": 28,
+ }[csidl_name]
+
+ buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(1024)
+ ctypes.windll.shell32.SHGetFolderPathW(None, csidl_const, None, 0, buf)
+
+ # Downgrade to short path name if have highbit chars. See
+ # <http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=85099>.
+ has_high_char = False
+ for c in buf:
+ if ord(c) > 255:
+ has_high_char = True
+ break
+ if has_high_char:
+ buf2 = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(1024)
+ if ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetShortPathNameW(buf.value, buf2, 1024):
+ buf = buf2
+
+ return buf.value
+
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+ try:
+ import win32com.shell
+ _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_pywin32
+ except ImportError:
+ try:
+ import ctypes
+ _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_with_ctypes
+ except ImportError:
+ _get_win_folder = _get_win_folder_from_registry
+
+
+
+#---- self test code
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ appname = "MyApp"
+ appauthor = "MyCompany"
+
+ props = ("user_data_dir", "site_data_dir", "user_cache_dir",
+ "user_log_dir")
+
+ print("-- app dirs (without optional 'version')")
+ dirs = AppDirs(appname, appauthor, version="1.0")
+ for prop in props:
+ print("%s: %s" % (prop, getattr(dirs, prop)))
+
+ print("\n-- app dirs (with optional 'version')")
+ dirs = AppDirs(appname, appauthor)
+ for prop in props:
+ print("%s: %s" % (prop, getattr(dirs, prop)))