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diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst index 01f17f8..c607eb9 100644 --- a/Doc/install/index.rst +++ b/Doc/install/index.rst @@ -604,8 +604,6 @@ value of ``sys.path``. :: The null string in ``sys.path`` represents the current working directory. -.. % $ <-- bow to font-lock - The expected convention for locally installed packages is to put them in the :file:`{...}/site-packages/` directory, but you may want to install Python modules into some arbitrary directory. For example, your site may have a @@ -624,9 +622,8 @@ installing fixed versions of standard modules.) Paths can be absolute or relative, in which case they're relative to the directory containing the :file:`.pth` file. Any directories added to the search -path will be scanned in turn for :file:`.pth` files. See `site module -documentation <http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-site.html>`_ for -more information. +path will be scanned in turn for :file:`.pth` files. See the documentation of +the :mod:`site` module for more information. A slightly less convenient way is to edit the :file:`site.py` file in Python's standard library, and modify ``sys.path``. :file:`site.py` is automatically |