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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-04-09 14:12:11 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-04-09 14:12:11 (GMT) |
commit | 2de75ec245adbe0cc5e6fa831935db4b85a47a42 (patch) | |
tree | 6e00704c42a345abf13a050c78c50cff19c5996b /Doc/api | |
parent | 9da38814a3d5e81f535396fd731b1fbbd4970af5 (diff) | |
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Don't assume that \version expands to the 3-character major.minor number; it
is the full release version name ("1.5.1beta1", for instance).
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diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex index e0c3ad2..5b87fd6 100644 --- a/Doc/api/api.tex +++ b/Doc/api/api.tex @@ -509,14 +509,14 @@ calculates the module search path based upon its best guess for the location of the standard Python interpreter executable, assuming that the Python library is found in a fixed location relative to the Python interpreter executable. In particular, it looks for a directory named -\file{lib/python\version} (replacing \file{\version} with the current +\file{lib/python1.5} (replacing \file{1.5} with the current interpreter version) relative to the parent directory where the executable named \file{python} is found on the shell command search path (the environment variable \envvar{PATH}). For instance, if the Python executable is found in \file{/usr/local/bin/python}, it will assume that the libraries are in -\file{/usr/local/lib/python\version}. (In fact, this particular path +\file{/usr/local/lib/python1.5}. (In fact, this particular path is also the ``fallback'' location, used when no executable file named \file{python} is found along \envvar{PATH}.) The user can override this behavior by setting the environment variable \envvar{PYTHONHOME}, |