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diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex index 9396960..d4d2425 100644 --- a/Doc/api/api.tex +++ b/Doc/api/api.tex @@ -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 <python\var{version}/Python.h>}; this will break on +\samp{\#include <python\shortversion/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 +550,13 @@ 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/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}). +\file{lib/python\shortversion} 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/python\var{version}}. (In fact, this particular path +\file{/usr/local/lib/python\shortversion}. (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}, |