Location for storing configuration files?

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I would like to know what is the best location to save a configuration text file for an addon? Apart from setting a location hardcoded it would be better that an abstract or cross platform way would exist.

Do you know any thing like this?

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You can use your addons’ directory, unless it is a built-in addon - those are stored in the Blender dir and is most likely not writable on Windows Vista and above.

You can access the path via file, also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4934806/python-how-to-find-scripts-directory

To manually find the scripts folder in the user directory, you may use:

bpy.utils.user_resource(‘SCRIPTS’)
bpy.utils.script_path_user()

They return
‘C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.73\scripts’
on Windows 7.

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Thanks, I tested and it works.