Location to put user configuration files in windows

Question

I\'m writing a python library that has a per-user configuration file that can be edited by the user of the library. The library also generates logging files. On *nix, the

Answer 1

On windows the user is not expected to configure an application using editable config files so there is no standard.
The standard for configuration which is editable using a GUI is the registry.

If you're using QT (or PyQT?) then you can use QSettings which provide an abstraction layer. On Linux it uses a config file and on windows is writes to the registry.