How to get user preferences path from blender

Question

How can I get the the user preferences path from blender, on windows system the path is %appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.74\config I want to get this path from blender using python on any system.

Answer 1

Using: bpy.utils.resource_path('USER')

eg:

import os
import bpy

user_path = bpy.utils.resource_path('USER')
config_path = os.path.join(user_path, "config")

• Or on Linux:
  /home/user_name/.config/blender/3.4
• On ms-windows will return:
  C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.4

See: bpy.utils.resource_path api docs