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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2016-08-25 14:13:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2016-08-25 14:13:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 37cac76100bb1e214865befd4a8f626f746e0248 (patch) | |
| tree | 91aa13cdfabfdf2f347be8d691be6e3b9ee340cd | |
| parent | 1f8cc33f884e5d6f5d4f0724ce8b03a4044da5e9 (diff) | |
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Issue #23746: Clarified is_python_build() documentation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst index c51567a..6ba094d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst @@ -204,7 +204,9 @@ Other functions .. function:: is_python_build() - Return ``True`` if the current Python installation was built from source. + Return ``True`` if the running Python interpreter was built from source and + is being run from its built location, and not from a location resulting from + e.g. running ``make install`` or installing via a binary installer. .. function:: parse_config_h(fp[, vars]) |