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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2018-04-15 13:32:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-15 13:32:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 1a5c4bdb6ecc6a8b19ff33bde323ab188ed60977 (patch) | |
| tree | a5638ce6266eff14b579f0e1def8b7be2573a6f9 /Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | |
| parent | 82a948105920100ca2ec5c2340bc3890adcfe778 (diff) | |
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bpo-33185: Improve wording and markup (GH-6477)
Adds some working and markup fixes that I missed
in the initial commit for this issue.
(Follow-up to GH-6419)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 81df398..0b82251 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -1144,11 +1144,13 @@ Changes in Python behavior parentheses can be omitted only on calls. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`32012` and :issue:`32023`.) -* When using the ``-m`` switch, the starting directory is now added to sys.path, - rather than the current working directory. Any programs that are checking for - the empty string in :data:`sys.path`, or otherwise relying on the previous - behaviour, will need to be updated accordingly (e.g. by checking for - ``os.getcwd()`` in addition to checking for the empty string). +* When using the :option:`-m` switch, the initial working directory is now added + to :data:`sys.path`, rather than an empty string (which dynamically denoted + the current working directory at the time of each import). Any programs that + are checking for the empty string, or otherwise relying on the previous + behaviour, will need to be updated accordingly (e.g. by also checking for + ``os.getcwd()`` or ``os.path.dirname(__main__.__file__)``, depending on why + the code was checking for the empty string in the first place). Changes in the Python API |