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author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-02-14 19:35:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-02-14 19:35:31 (GMT) |
commit | 117910dc445a2262bd96bbfefaf43714ae59c11b (patch) | |
tree | 9dfb082f3e2975d50277035df0c3e8db70dbce7b /Doc/lib/libos.tex | |
parent | 4507ec70cff35468f4b1767382f38ecebd4a29a2 (diff) | |
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Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
into the relevant path modules. See patch #686397.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 8f13e0e..b2c10f7 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -1620,12 +1620,14 @@ Higher-level operations on pathnames are defined in the The constant string used by the operating system to refer to the current directory. For example: \code{'.'} for \POSIX{} or \code{':'} for the Macintosh. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{pardir} The constant string used by the operating system to refer to the parent directory. For example: \code{'..'} for \POSIX{} or \code{'::'} for the Macintosh. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{sep} @@ -1634,6 +1636,7 @@ for example, \character{/} for \POSIX{} or \character{:} for the Macintosh. Note that knowing this is not sufficient to be able to parse or concatenate pathnames --- use \function{os.path.split()} and \function{os.path.join()} --- but it is occasionally useful. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{altsep} @@ -1641,11 +1644,13 @@ An alternative character used by the operating system to separate pathname components, or \code{None} if only one separator character exists. This is set to \character{/} on Windows systems where \code{sep} is a backslash. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{extsep} The character which separates the base filename from the extension; for example, the \character{.} in \file{os.py}. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \versionadded{2.2} \end{datadesc} @@ -1653,12 +1658,14 @@ for example, the \character{.} in \file{os.py}. The character conventionally used by the operating system to separate search patch components (as in \envvar{PATH}), such as \character{:} for \POSIX{} or \character{;} for Windows. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{defpath} The default search path used by \function{exec*p*()} and \function{spawn*p*()} if the environment doesn't have a \code{'PATH'} key. +Also available via \module{os.path}. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{linesep} |