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I wish more developers would seek out and embrace libraries for saving things in sensible locations. Python has one called “platformdirs” that takes the guesswork out of where to save things automatically for the user’s platform. I have no doubt all the other major environments have something similar.

If you ask me, this should all be built-in, but even then (because on many platforms, it is), people can’t help rolling their own.

Standards XKCD I guess.



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