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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2020-03-10 08:53:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-10 08:53:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 8510f430781118d9b603c3a2f06945d6ebc5fe42 (patch) | |
| tree | 511cb42b478dd031ff36297a5e0c78b27a4e77a2 /Doc | |
| parent | 700cb587303461d5a96456c56902cfdd8ad50e2d (diff) | |
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bpo-1294959: Add sys.platlibdir attribute (GH-18381)
Add --with-platlibdir option to the configure script: name of the
platform-specific library directory, stored in the new sys.platlitdir
attribute. 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 systems.
Co-Authored-By: Jan Matějek <jmatejek@suse.com>
Co-Authored-By: Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
Co-Authored-By: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 16 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index f67bf63..98f63fb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1138,6 +1138,27 @@ always available. system's identity. +.. 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. + + 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`` + paths (where ``X.Y`` is the Python ``major.minor`` version): + + * ``/usr/lib64/pythonX.Y/``: + Standard library (like ``os.py`` of the :mod:`os` module) + * ``/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 + :data:`sys.platlibdir`): Third-party modules + + .. versionadded:: 3.9 + + .. data:: prefix A string giving the site-specific directory prefix where the platform diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index c232805..9056289 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -353,6 +353,17 @@ finalization crashed with a Python fatal error if a daemon thread was still running. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`37266`.) +sys +--- + +Add a new :attr:`sys.platlitdir` 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. +(Contributed by Jan Matějek, Matěj Cepl, Charalampos Stratakis and Victor Stinner in :issue:`1294959`.) + + typing ------ @@ -390,6 +401,11 @@ Optimizations Build and C API Changes ======================= +* Add ``--with-platlibdir`` option to the ``configure`` script: name of the + platform-specific library directory, stored in the new :attr:`sys.platlitdir` + attribute. See :attr:`sys.platlibdir` attribute for more information. + (Contributed by Jan Matějek, Matěj Cepl, Charalampos Stratakis and Victor Stinner in :issue:`1294959`.) + * Add a new public :c:func:`PyObject_CallNoArgs` function to the C API, which calls a callable Python object without any arguments. It is the most efficient way to call a callable Python object without any argument. |