platformdirs: user_config_path returns two nested folders in Windows 11

[orestisfra]

Hello everyone,

I have the following code:

self.path_to_config = user_config_path(appname="appname", appauthor=None, version=None)
print("Raw user_config_path:", self.path_to_config)
self.path_to_config.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

print and mkdir returns a nested folder structure ~/AppData/Local/appname/appname

I have tried: user_config_path("appname") , user_config_path(appname="appname", appauthor="appname", version=None) , user_config_dir as a workaround but the only thing that works is to do user_config_path(appname="None", appauthor=None, version=None) (or similar with user_config_dir) and setting the folder name for each config file.

Platform: Windows 11 Home 25H2, OS build 26200.8037, Lenovo IdeaPad 1 15AMN7, and platformdirs 4.9.4 on python 3.13.12. I don't know if this is a Microslop issue or a platformdirs issue but right now I cannot check on Linux.

I have to ask: is this intended behavior? It seems to me like it is not.

Thank you for your time

[ofek]

user_config_path("appname", appauthor=False)

[orestisfra]

user_config_path("appname", appauthor=False)

thanks for the fast response. this indeed works as expected. so is the nested folders intended behavior with appauthor=None?