From d36214056e9fd6edd0305fcbc3df6a19cabec1f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: itsb <itsb@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:25:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] user-controllable plotly config directory

---
 plotly/files.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plotly/files.py b/plotly/files.py
index a97e79fe255..bfbee85bd71 100644
--- a/plotly/files.py
+++ b/plotly/files.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 import os
 
 # file structure
-PLOTLY_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".plotly")
+PLOTLY_DIR = os.environ.get("PLOTLY_DIR", os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".plotly"))
 CREDENTIALS_FILE = os.path.join(PLOTLY_DIR, ".credentials")
 CONFIG_FILE = os.path.join(PLOTLY_DIR, ".config")
-TEST_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".test")
 TEST_FILE = os.path.join(PLOTLY_DIR, ".permission_test")
 
 # this sets both the DEFAULTS and the TYPES for these files
@@ -23,8 +22,6 @@
                               'auto_open': True}}
 
 try:
-    os.mkdir(TEST_DIR)
-    os.rmdir(TEST_DIR)
     if not os.path.exists(PLOTLY_DIR):
         os.mkdir(PLOTLY_DIR)
     f = open(TEST_FILE, 'w')