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authorVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2016-08-25 14:14:07 (GMT)
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2016-08-25 14:14:07 (GMT)
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Closes #23746: merged update from 3.5.
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@@ -204,7 +204,9 @@ Other functions
.. function:: is_python_build()
- Return ``True`` if the current Python installation was built from source.
+ Return ``True`` if the running Python interpreter was built from source and
+ is being run from its built location, and not from a location resulting from
+ e.g. running ``make install`` or installing via a binary installer.
.. function:: parse_config_h(fp[, vars])