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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2020-03-10 08:53:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-10 08:53:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 8510f430781118d9b603c3a2f06945d6ebc5fe42 (patch) | |
| tree | 511cb42b478dd031ff36297a5e0c78b27a4e77a2 /Doc/library/sys.rst | |
| parent | 700cb587303461d5a96456c56902cfdd8ad50e2d (diff) | |
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bpo-1294959: Add sys.platlibdir attribute (GH-18381)
Add --with-platlibdir option to the configure script: name of the
platform-specific library directory, stored in the new sys.platlitdir
attribute. It is used to build the path of platform-specific dynamic
libraries and the path of the standard library.
It is equal to "lib" on most platforms. On Fedora and SuSE, it is
equal to "lib64" on 64-bit systems.
Co-Authored-By: Jan Matějek <jmatejek@suse.com>
Co-Authored-By: Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
Co-Authored-By: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index f67bf63..98f63fb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1138,6 +1138,27 @@ always available. system's identity. +.. data:: platlibdir + + Name of the platform-specific library directory. It is used to build the + path of platform-specific dynamic libraries and the path of the standard + library. + + It is equal to ``"lib"`` on most platforms. On Fedora and SuSE, it is equal + to ``"lib64"`` on 64-bit platforms which gives the following ``sys.path`` + paths (where ``X.Y`` is the Python ``major.minor`` version): + + * ``/usr/lib64/pythonX.Y/``: + Standard library (like ``os.py`` of the :mod:`os` module) + * ``/usr/lib64/pythonX.Y/lib-dynload/``: + C extension modules of the standard library (like the :mod:`errno` module, + the exact filename is platform specific) + * ``/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages`` (always use ``lib``, not + :data:`sys.platlibdir`): Third-party modules + + .. versionadded:: 3.9 + + .. data:: prefix A string giving the site-specific directory prefix where the platform |