#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (c) 2005-2010 ActiveState Software Inc. """Utilities for determining application-specific dirs. See 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, 2, 0) __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, __version_info__)) import sys import os PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3 if PY3: unicode = str class AppDirsError(Exception): pass def user_data_dir(appname, 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. "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. "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 ".". "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 for a discussion of issues. Typical user data directories are: Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/ Unix: ~/.config/ # or in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if defined Win XP (not roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\\ Win XP (roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\\ Win 7 (not roaming): C:\Users\\AppData\Local\\ Win 7 (roaming): C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\\ For Unix, we follow the XDG spec and support $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. We don't use $XDG_DATA_HOME as that data dir is mostly used at the time of installation, instead of the application adding data during runtime. Also, in practice, Linux apps tend to store their data in "~/.config/" instead of "~/.local/share/". """ if sys.platform.startswith("win"): if appauthor is None: raise AppDirsError("must specify 'appauthor' on Windows") const = roaming and "CSIDL_APPDATA" or "CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA" path = os.path.join(_get_win_folder(const), appauthor, appname) elif sys.platform == 'darwin': path = os.path.join( os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/'), appname) else: path = os.path.join( os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', os.path.expanduser("~/.config")), appname.lower()) if version: path = os.path.join(path, version) return path def site_data_dir(appname, appauthor=None, version=None): """Return full path to the user-shared data dir for this application. "appname" is the name of application. "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. "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 ".". Typical user data directories are: Mac OS X: /Library/Application Support/ Unix: /etc/xdg/ Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\\ Vista: (Fail! "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden *system* directory on Vista.) Win 7: C:\ProgramData\\ # Hidden, but writeable on Win 7. For Unix, this is using the $XDG_CONFIG_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: raise AppDirsError("must specify 'appauthor' on Windows") path = os.path.join(_get_win_folder("CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA"), appauthor, appname) elif sys.platform == 'darwin': path = os.path.join( os.path.expanduser('/Library/Application Support'), appname) else: # XDG default for $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[0]. Perhaps should actually # *use* that envvar, if defined. path = "/etc/xdg/"+appname.lower() if version: path = os.path.join(path, version) return path def user_cache_dir(appname, 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. "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. "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 ".". "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/ Unix: ~/.cache/ (XDG default) Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\\\Cache Vista: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\\\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\\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: raise AppDirsError("must specify 'appauthor' on Windows") path = os.path.join(_get_win_folder("CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA"), appauthor, appname) if opinion: path = os.path.join(path, "Cache") elif sys.platform == 'darwin': path = os.path.join( os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Caches'), appname) else: path = os.path.join( os.getenv('XDG_CACHE_HOME', os.path.expanduser('~/.cache')), appname.lower()) if version: path = os.path.join(path, version) return path def user_log_dir(appname, 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. "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. "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 ".". "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/ Unix: ~/.cache//log # or under $XDG_CACHE_HOME if defined Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\\\Logs Vista: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\\\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 version: path = os.path.join(path, version) return path class AppDirs(object): """Convenience wrapper for getting application dirs.""" def __init__(self, appname, appauthor, version=None, roaming=False): self.appname = appname self.appauthor = appauthor self.version = version self.roaming = roaming @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) @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 # . 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 # . 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: _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)))