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UserDefaults is an interface for persistent user defaults (user preferences) for Python programs. UserDefaults provides an application defaults dictionary that can store CoreFoundation-style property list objects. userdefaults consists of a pure python module that uses a back-end extension module to access the operating system's preferences API.

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SarwatKhan

2026-02-14 16:09