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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-09-23 22:48:26 (GMT)
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bpo-38623: Add note about site module (site-packages) (GH-16974) (GH-28537)
(cherry picked from commit 55b45bf707c6c8084db259fe2f8aa08e84ea0d99) Co-authored-by: Peter Bittner <django@bittner.it>
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@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ named :file:`spam.py` in a list of directories given by the variable
file is specified).
* :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the
shell variable :envvar:`PATH`).
-* The installation-dependent default.
+* The installation-dependent default (by convention including a
+ ``site-packages`` directory, handled by the :mod:`site` module).
.. note::
On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input