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diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst index 071706a..3bf8a99 100644 --- a/Doc/library/site.rst +++ b/Doc/library/site.rst @@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ Unix and Macintosh). For each of the distinct head-tail combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory, and if so, adds it to ``sys.path`` and also inspects the newly added path for configuration files. +If a file named "pyvenv.cfg" exists one directory above sys.executable, +sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to that directory and +it is also checked for site-packages and site-python (sys.base_prefix and +sys.base_exec_prefix will always be the "real" prefixes of the Python +installation). If "pyvenv.cfg" (a bootstrap configuration file) contains +the key "include-system-site-packages" set to anything other than "false" +(case-insensitive), the system-level prefixes will still also be +searched for site-packages; otherwise they won't. + A path configuration file is a file whose name has the form :file:`{name}.pth` and exists in one of the four directories mentioned above; its contents are additional items (one per line) to be added to ``sys.path``. Non-existing items |