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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/site.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py index aedcafa..876c0d1 100644 --- a/Lib/site.py +++ b/Lib/site.py @@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ somewhere near the top of their code. Because of the automatic import, this is no longer necessary (but code that does it still works). -This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. It -starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and appends -lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. The +This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. On +Unix, it starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and +appends lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. +On other platforms (mainly Mac and Windows), it uses just sys.prefix +(and sys.exec_prefix, if different, but this is unlikely). The resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and also inspected for path configuration files. @@ -53,10 +55,6 @@ named sitecustomize, which can perform arbitrary additional site-specific customizations. If this import fails with an ImportError exception, it is silently ignored. -Note that for some non-Unix systems, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix -are empty, and then the path manipulations are skipped; however the -import of sitecustomize is still attempted. - """ import sys, os |