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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-11 13:04:20 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-11 13:04:20 (GMT)
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@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ Process-wide parameters
:c:func:`Py_Initialize`, then :c:func:`Py_GetPath` won't attempt to compute a
default search path but uses the one provided instead. This is useful if
Python is embedded by an application that has full knowledge of the location
- of all modules. The path components should be separated by semicolons.
+ of all modules. The path components should be separated by the platform
+ dependent delimiter character, which is ``':'`` on Unix and Mac OS X, ``';'``
+ on Windows.
This also causes :data:`sys.executable` to be set only to the raw program
name (see :c:func:`Py_SetProgramName`) and for :data:`sys.prefix` and