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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib/libsite.tex')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsite.tex b/Doc/lib/libsite.tex index ea91900..7e80b08 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsite.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsite.tex @@ -10,16 +10,17 @@ modules that needed to use site-specific modules would place longer necessary. This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. +\indexiii{module}{search}{path} It starts by constructing up to four directories from a head and a tail part. For the head part, it uses \code{sys.prefix} and \code{sys.exec_prefix}; empty heads are skipped. For the tail part, it uses the empty string (on Mac or Windows) or it uses first \file{lib/python\var{version}/site-packages} and then -\file{lib/site-python} (on Unix). For each of the distinct head-tail -combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory, and if -so, adds to \code{sys.path}, and also inspected for path configuration -files. +\file{lib/site-python} (on \UNIX{}). For each of the distinct +head-tail combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory, +and if so, adds to \code{sys.path}, and also inspected for path +configuration files. \indexii{site-python}{directory} \indexii{site-packages}{directory} @@ -32,10 +33,6 @@ refers to a directory (rather than a file). No item is added to \code{\#} are skipped. \index{package} \indexiii{path}{configuration}{file} -\kwindex{sys.prefix} -\kwindex{sys.exec_prefix} -\kwindex{prefix} -\kwindex{exec_prefix} For example, suppose \code{sys.prefix} and \code{sys.exec_prefix} are set to \file{/usr/local}. The Python 1.5 library is then installed in @@ -61,7 +58,8 @@ and \file{bar.pth} contains: bar \end{verbatim}\ecode -Then the following directories are added to sys.path, in this order: +Then the following directories are added to \code{sys.path}, in this +order: \bcode\begin{verbatim} /usr/local/python1.5/site-packages/bar @@ -75,11 +73,11 @@ Note that \file{bletch} is omitted because it doesn't exist; the configuration file. After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module -named \code{sitecustomize}, which can perform arbitrary site-specific -customizations. If this import fails with an \code{ImportError} -exception, it is silently ignored. -\refmodindex{sitecustomize} +named \code{sitecustomize}\refmodindex{sitecustomize}, which can +perform arbitrary site-specific customizations. If this import fails +with an \code{ImportError} exception, it is silently ignored. -Note that for some non-Unix systems, \code{sys.prefix} and +Note that for some non-\UNIX{} systems, \code{sys.prefix} and \code{sys.exec_prefix} are empty, and the path manipulations are -skipped; however the import of \code{sitecustomize} is still attempted. +skipped; however the import of +\code{sitecustomize}\refmodindex{sitecustomize} is still attempted. |