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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst index 0587e15..59af41b 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst @@ -236,7 +236,9 @@ Process-wide parameters :c:func:`Py_Initialize`, then :c:func:`Py_GetPath` won't attempt to compute a default search path but uses the one provided instead. This is useful if Python is embedded by an application that has full knowledge of the location - of all modules. The path components should be separated by semicolons. + of all modules. The path components should be separated by the platform + dependent delimiter character, which is ``':'`` on Unix and Mac OS X, ``';'`` + on Windows. This also causes :data:`sys.executable` to be set only to the raw program name (see :c:func:`Py_SetProgramName`) and for :data:`sys.prefix` and |