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+# This file is part of GAnarchy - decentralized project hub
+# Copyright (C) 2020  Soni L.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""This module handles GAnarchy's config, data and cache directories.
+
+These are not XDG dirs. They're GAnarchy dirs. They're based on XDG
+dirs but they're not XDG dirs.
+
+Attributes:
+    DATA_HOME (str): GAnarchy data home.
+    CACHE_HOME (str): GAnarchy cache home.
+    CONFIG_HOME (str): GAnarchy config home.
+    CONFIG_DIRS (list of str): GAnarchy config dirs.
+"""
+
+import os
+
+# need to check for unset or empty, ``.get`` only handles unset.
+
+DATA_HOME = os.environ.get('XDG_DATA_HOME', '')
+if not DATA_HOME:
+    DATA_HOME = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.local/share'
+DATA_HOME = DATA_HOME + "/ganarchy"
+
+CACHE_HOME = os.environ.get('XDG_CACHE_HOME', '')
+if not CACHE_HOME:
+    CACHE_HOME = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.cache'
+CACHE_HOME = CACHE_HOME + "/ganarchy"
+
+CONFIG_HOME = os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', '')
+if not CONFIG_HOME:
+    CONFIG_HOME = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.config'
+CONFIG_HOME = CONFIG_HOME + "/ganarchy"
+
+CONFIG_DIRS = os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_DIRS', '')
+if not CONFIG_DIRS:
+    CONFIG_DIRS = '/etc/xdg'
+# TODO check if this is correct
+CONFIG_DIRS = [config_dir + "/ganarchy" for config_dir in CONFIG_DIRS.split(':')]
+