Installing, and accessing, the data from a shared location

[perllaghu]

Is there a way to install/move the data to a shared location?

Rational: I'm installing the libraries [and data] in a docker image, and then mount the individual's users home directory. This means I can't pre-install data into ~/.data/papyrus

Is there a path I can define, or a set of paths the code will search that I can utilise?

[OlivierBeq]

We rely on PyStow to manage the data folder, which it sets by default to ~/.data. You can modify the default setting and use a custom directory by setting the outdir argument of the papyrus_scripts.download.download_papyrus to the folder you want. The functions under papyrus_scripts.reader allowing access to the data all have the source_path argument that should correspond to the one used as outdir in the papyrus_scripts.download.download_papyrus function. Similarly, other functions responsible of I/O have a related argument allowing this custom directory to be specified.