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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-09-14 18:12:48 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-09-14 18:12:48 (GMT)
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Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ the installation directory specified to the installer.
To include the headers, place both directories (if different) on your
compiler's search path for includes. Do \emph{not} place the parent
directories on the search path and then use
-\samp{\#include <python1.5/Python.h>}; this will break on
+\samp{\#include <python\var{version}/Python.h>}; this will break on
multi-platform builds since the platform independent headers under
\envvar{prefix} include the platform specific headers from
\envvar{exec_prefix}.
@@ -550,14 +550,14 @@ upon its best guess for the location of the standard Python
interpreter executable, assuming that the Python library is found in a
fixed location relative to the Python interpreter executable. In
particular, it looks for a directory named
-\file{lib/python1.5} (replacing \file{1.5} with the current
+\file{lib/python\var{version}} (replacing \var{version} with the current
interpreter version) relative to the parent directory where the
executable named \file{python} is found on the shell command search
path (the environment variable \envvar{PATH}).
For instance, if the Python executable is found in
\file{/usr/local/bin/python}, it will assume that the libraries are in
-\file{/usr/local/lib/python1.5}. (In fact, this particular path
+\file{/usr/local/lib/python\var{version}}. (In fact, this particular path
is also the ``fallback'' location, used when no executable file named
\file{python} is found along \envvar{PATH}.) The user can override
this behavior by setting the environment variable \envvar{PYTHONHOME},