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a Suite in Python for Computer-Assisted Music [MIRROR of https://git.sr.ht/~marcevanstein/scamp]
http://scamp.marcevanstein.com
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scamp crashes during import #3

Closed shimpe closed 3 years ago

shimpe commented 3 years ago

I seem to hit a problem where during import scamp tries to create settings files (json format) in the package folder. Since that is typically not writable on linux systems, it crashes during import.

I think settings files by default should be read/created in the user's home folder (a subfolder of the home folder) instead.

MarcTheSpark commented 3 years ago

Hmm... was this with the 0.8.7 release on pip? I changed something about how the settings work, but I imagine this would have been a problem with earlier versions too.

Also, did you you use pip3 install or pip3 install --user?

At any rate, I suspect that you may be right about where the files are stored... The question is what the best cross-platform way to find the correct location is.

MarcTheSpark commented 3 years ago

Update: I think I've found a good cross-platform way to do this, based on: https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwagLyrics-For-Spotify/blob/master/swaglyrics/__init__.py#L8-L32

I'll change it in the next release. Thanks for the suggestion!

shimpe commented 3 years ago

Hi Marc,

An "official" cross-platform way to find the user's home folder would be to:

from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser("~")

If you're on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home() https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.home

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:46 PM MarcTheSpark @.***> wrote:

Update: I think I've found a good cross-platform way to do this, based on: https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwagLyrics-For-Spotify/blob/master/swaglyrics/__init__.py#L8-L32

I'll change it in the next release. Thanks for the suggestion!

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