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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-05-28 16:41:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-05-28 16:41:31 (GMT) |
| commit | a5936ad6323b2cda712726a25d9301f766146cff (patch) | |
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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.
(cherry picked from commit 242d95659b6b4ff4fb54b58a30454dafa311d4e9)
Co-authored-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index 42f9c30..4fd5277 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -552,10 +552,9 @@ sys --- Add a new :attr:`sys.platlibdir` attribute: 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. +library directory. It is used to build the 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. (Contributed by Jan Matějek, Matěj Cepl, Charalampos Stratakis and Victor Stinner in :issue:`1294959`.) Previously, :attr:`sys.stderr` was block-buffered when non-interactive. Now |