allow user to override calcurse load dir location

purarue · Oct 19, 2023 · 5d3b694 · 5d3b694
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export CALCURSE_DIR="$HOME/Documents/calcurse"
 alias calcurse='calcurse --datadir "$CALCURSE_DIR" --confdir ~/.config/calcurse "$@"'
 ```
 
-In addition to that, this maintains a data directory in `$XDG_DATA_HOME/calcurse_load`, where it stores data for `gcal_index`.
+In addition to that, this maintains a data directory in `$XDG_DATA_HOME/calcurse_load` (you can overwrite this with `$CALCURSE_LOAD_DIR`), where it stores data for `gcal_index`.
 
 ## About
 

diff --git a/calcurse_load/calcurse.py b/calcurse_load/calcurse.py
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ def get_configuration() -> Configuration:
     if "CALCURSE_DIR" in os.environ:
         calcurse_dir = Path(os.environ["CALCURSE_DIR"])
     calcurse_load_dir: Path = xdg_data / "calcurse_load"
+    if "CALCURSE_LOAD_DIR" in os.environ:
+        calcurse_load_dir = Path(os.environ["CALCURSE_LOAD_DIR"])
     if not calcurse_dir.exists():
         warnings.warn(
             "Calcurse data directory at {} doesn't exist.".format(str(calcurse_dir))
         )
     if not calcurse_load_dir.exists():
-        os.makedirs(str(calcurse_load_dir))
+        calcurse_load_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
     return Configuration(
         calcurse_dir=calcurse_dir,
         calcurse_load_dir=calcurse_load_dir,