this looks like a windows problem, linux works fine

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alright, thanks for checking. I'll look into this

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Also for macos, the default config file is not created but works if done by the user

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I'm on Windows 11. I'll go ahead and see what I can find out.

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TL;DR

The current version of anipy doesn't create a config file. But when I force it to, it creates it, and reads it, but I cannot find it anywhere on the file system.

Breakdown

According to #79, the config system was changed so users don't have to manually add vars every update. Great change, but by doing so they also removed the code that creates at least some kind of default file we can find and adjust (_create_config() has no references).

To fix this, I added the code that creates the config file, but there is indeed an issue on Windows (I've only test Windows). Python says that the config file was created, it pulls data from it and everything, but I can't actually find the file on my system.

Pulled data evidence:

Can't find it:

I went through the computer's process of placing the config file, and I still couldn't find it no matter what I did.
I found a Stack Overflow question about it, but there were no answers.

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Update:

When using different Python versions, the one that created the file seems to recognize it and the other does not

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GOOD NEWS

I found where Python is actually writing the file. Turns out if you download Python from the Microsoft store, Python gets sandboxed, and anything written to AppData is written into its cache, as seen here:

Unfortunately there aren't many good solutions for solving this, except for knowing that your Python might be sandboxed. So, for now I'll just give you the possible location your config file might get stored on a sandboxed Python on Windows:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\Local\anipy-cli\config.yaml

I recommend either users download Python directly from the site, or be warned that Microsoft Store Python is sandboxed and will be stored in this location. You could also relocate where the config file is placed if you wish, but I'm not sure where it could go.

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Thanks for the investigation, will close this as #136 (2.7.23) is now merged.

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