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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-04-29 04:32:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2014-04-29 04:32:17 (GMT) |
| commit | c763807d9bed84aeeb737c0e8ea1c238d59c99b6 (patch) | |
| tree | dffaefe5f668d29b6b91d3e17da5b3806f950319 /Doc/library/site.rst | |
| parent | 7971286b6e5a022103b5ee646086686cd37a1e7d (diff) | |
| parent | 43e7cd38e50a0f63362768e3009ba515c8a475d7 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst index e249bab..6beda84 100644 --- a/Doc/library/site.rst +++ b/Doc/library/site.rst @@ -99,7 +99,11 @@ After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module named :mod:`sitecustomize`, which can perform arbitrary site-specific customizations. It is typically created by a system administrator in the site-packages directory. If this import fails with an :exc:`ImportError` exception, it is -silently ignored. +silently ignored. If Python is started without output streams available, as +with :file:`pythonw.exe` on Windows (which is used by default to start IDLE), +attempted output from :mod:`sitecustomize` is ignored. Any exception other +than :exc:`ImportError` causes a silent and perhaps mysterious failure of the +process. .. index:: module: usercustomize |