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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-11 00:16:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-11 00:16:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 8dffa0e5cf0640fe7f3ca2a4940f97889397f0a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c87faf7eedddcfedbf7f3da34cadfc5c5955a40 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 96eeddba0542f0b5323659ffb0fa7038032899d8 (diff) | |
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Fix PYTHONPATH wording. It's just PATH, not "normal posix convention".
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index ed69876..b1ef277 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1616,14 +1616,13 @@ that may require changes to your code. Changes in 'python' command behavior ------------------------------------ -* In a posix shell, setting an environment variable to an empty value is - generally equivalent to not setting it at all. In particular, this is true - for the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable. However, setting +* In a posix shell, setting the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable to + an empty value is equivalent to not setting it at all. However, setting :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` to an empty value was *not* equivalent to not setting it at all: setting :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` to an empty value was equivalent to setting it to ``.``, which leads to confusion when reasoning by analogy to - how :envvar:`PATH` works. The behavior now conforms to the normal posix - convention. + how :envvar:`PATH` works. The behavior now conforms to the posix convention + for :envvar:`PATH`. Changes in the Python API |