Further: programs should use well-defined libraries to manage config and data file location. As easy as it is to roll your own, a library can and should handle

Further: programs should use well-defined libraries to manage config and data file location. As easy as it is to roll your own, a library can and should handle cases you don’t need to worry about. Python has platformdirs for this. It handles XDG and a number of corner cases. https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/ https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/ Ideally the OS you deploy to should handle this as well.