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| author | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2020-05-28 16:33:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-05-28 16:33:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 242d95659b6b4ff4fb54b58a30454dafa311d4e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 999eef2822752395e230a2c608fe3b669042d6bd /Doc/library | |
| parent | fda7f6d61b13c68f59806db674e892fda4013348 (diff) | |
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bpo-1294959: Try to clarify the meaning of platlibdir (GH-20332)
Try to make the meaning of platlibdir clear. The previous wording could
be misinterpreted to suggest that it will be used to find all shared
libraries on the system, and not just Python extensions. Furthermore,
it was unclear whether it affects third-party (site-packages) extensions
or not. The new wording tries to make its dual purpose clear,
and provide the additional example of extensions in site-packages.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 98f63fb..880f252 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1141,8 +1141,7 @@ always available. .. 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. + path of standard library and the paths of installed extension modules. 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`` @@ -1153,8 +1152,10 @@ always available. * ``/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 + * ``/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/`` (always use ``lib``, not :data:`sys.platlibdir`): Third-party modules + * ``/usr/lib64/pythonX.Y/site-packages/``: + C extension modules of third-party packages .. versionadded:: 3.9 |