User-specific config file

[OmeGak]

Feature request. According to my search-fu, it hasn't been discussed yet.

mypy with no --config-file specified will check for mypy.ini first, use to setup.cfg otherwise, and ultimately fallback to the built-in defaults if none of them are present. I would like to have a user-default config that would be used instead. Would it be too crazy to check for ~/.mypy.ini before falling back to the built-in defaults?

I would find this useful for quick prototyping without having to copy&paste my preferred configuration from other projects. It's also quite a common pattern in other static analysis tools like linters.

[gvanrossum]

This looks like a simple project which you can probably do yourself in a few lines -- just submit a PR.

[OmeGak]

Sure! Happy to tackle it.

[dsifford]

Nice work @OmeGak

Curious what your thoughts are on adding to this commit to support the XDG base directory specification?

Details here.
Spec here.

My home directory thanks you in advance 🙏

[OmeGak]

Not a strong opinion on XDG base directory. It wouldn't hurt complying with the specs, I guess. Maybe you could create a new issue proposing the idea for people to discuss it first?

[OmeGak]

Not a strong opinion on XDG base directory. It wouldn't hurt complying with the specs, I guess. Maybe you could create a new issue proposing the idea for people to discuss it first?