twobraids/configman — comment on commit 30d1b5878248f545b0f60a7993d6c034d8b7ed75
File: configman/config_manager.py line 76
By twobraids:

casting about online, I've found lots of ambiguity. the POSIX definition of 'pathname' is something like host://slash_delimited_directory_list/resource_name However, since directories themselves can be considered a "resource", any path is also a pathname.

I think "config_pathname" works. The actual value that I'm expecting can be either a file or a directory. If it's a directory, I guess at the filename based on the app_name. If it's an absolute path to a file, I use the file. To test if a pathname points to a directory or a file, I'm now using the os.path.isdir() call. See 'get_config_pathname' on line 221 of config_manager.py

I don't think that anyone seeing "config_pathname" is going to get confused about what it means.