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Currently we use path ~/.python_history for history file in all platforms.
It is not a good choice since it spams in user's home directory.

This patch use platform defined directories for put the history file.
For Windows, it's %APPDATA%/Python/history;
for Mac OS, it's ~/Library/Application Support/Python/history;
for other POSIX platforms, it's $XDG_STATE_HOME/python/history or ~/.local/state/python/history;
otherwise, fallback to ~/.python_history.

Also if ~/.python_history exists and is readable, it will always be used for compatibility.

https://bugs.python.org/issue44239

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This PR is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

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oxalica commented Jun 28, 2021

This PR is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

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.python_history probably belongs under $XDG_STATE_HOME on linux rather than $XDG_DATA_HOME

The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain:

  • actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …)
  • current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)

Then again just getting it out of user root would be nice.

@oxalica oxalica force-pushed the fix/xdg-history-path branch from f4758ed to dc505f9 Compare September 24, 2021 18:42
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oxalica commented Sep 24, 2021

Changed to $XDG_STATE_HOME/python/history or ~/.local/state/python/history for *nix platform now.

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eabase commented Jan 24, 2022

Instead of you hard-coding a commonly used and often changed file-path like this, please consider using an internal built-in variable named something like DEFAULT_HISTORY_FILE. instead.

mentioned #13208

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yochem commented Jan 11, 2023

Any updates on this? Btw, please let MacOS users also set XDG_STATE_HOME. A lot of them use the XDG specification (and if they don't, then it's just the default location you already specified)

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Any chance for this to move forward?

@arhadthedev arhadthedev changed the title bpo-44239: Use platform defined data directories instead of ~/.python_history gh-88405: Use platform defined data directories instead of ~/.python_history Jun 5, 2023
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