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I want to access config.ini in Factorio's user data directory. I have a Lua library that reads the .ini file, but I don't know what file path to use to get to config, as this requires going up two levels to the user data directory and then to config/config.ini.
How would I achieve this? I use Windows, but I would like a solution that's cross-platform if at all possible.

Thanks in advance

You can't read arbitrary files from a user's system, even if you knew the path.

That's disappointing. Why is this not possible?
The next step would be to ask how to access key binding information in game, presumably the data is there somewhere