def site_config_dir(appname=None, appauthor=None, version=None, multipath=False):
    r"""Return full path to the user-shared data dir for this application.

        "appname" is the name of application.
            If None, just the system directory is returned.
        "appauthor" (only used on Windows) is the name of the
            appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
            it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname. You may
            pass False to disable it.
        "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
            path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
            of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
            would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
            Only applied when appname is present.
        "multipath" is an optional parameter only applicable to *nix
            which indicates that the entire list of config dirs should be
            returned. By default, the first item from XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is
            returned, or '/etc/xdg/<AppName>', if XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is not set

    Typical site config directories are:
        Mac OS X:   same as site_data_dir
        Unix:       /etc/xdg/<AppName> or $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[i]/<AppName> for each value in
                    $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
        Win *:      same as site_data_dir
        Vista:      (Fail! "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden *system* directory on Vista.)

    For Unix, this is using the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[0] default, if multipath=False

    WARNING: Do not use this on Windows. See the Vista-Fail note above for why.
    """
    if system in ["win32", "darwin"]:
        path = site_data_dir(appname, appauthor)
        if appname and version:
            path = os.path.join(path, version)
    else:
        # XDG default for $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
        # only first, if multipath is False
        path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_DIRS', '/etc/xdg')
        pathlist = [os.path.expanduser(x.rstrip(os.sep)) for x in path.split(os.pathsep)]
        if appname:
            if version:
                appname = os.path.join(appname, version)
            pathlist = [os.sep.join([x, appname]) for x in pathlist]

        if multipath:
            path = os.pathsep.join(pathlist)
        else:
            path = pathlist[0]
    return path
Return full path to the user-shared data dir for this application.

        "appname" is the name of application.
            If None, just the system directory is returned.
        "appauthor" (only used on Windows) is the name of the
            appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically
            it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname. You may
            pass False to disable it.
        "version" is an optional version path element to append to the
            path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
            of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
            would typically be "<major>.<minor>".
            Only applied when appname is present.
        "multipath" is an optional parameter only applicable to *nix
            which indicates that the entire list of config dirs should be
            returned. By default, the first item from XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is
            returned, or '/etc/xdg/<AppName>', if XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is not set

    Typical site config directories are:
        Mac OS X:   same as site_data_dir
        Unix:       /etc/xdg/<AppName> or $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[i]/<AppName> for each value in
                    $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
        Win *:      same as site_data_dir
        Vista:      (Fail! "C:\ProgramData" is a hidden *system* directory on Vista.)

    For Unix, this is using the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[0] default, if multipath=False

    WARNING: Do not use this on Windows. See the Vista-Fail note above for why.
    
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