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@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ somewhere near the top of their code. Because of the automatic
import, this is no longer necessary (but code that does it still
works).
-This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. It
-starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and appends
-lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. The
+This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. On
+Unix, it starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and
+appends lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python.
+On other platforms (mainly Mac and Windows), it uses just sys.prefix
+(and sys.exec_prefix, if different, but this is unlikely). The
resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and
also inspected for path configuration files.
@@ -53,10 +55,6 @@ named sitecustomize, which can perform arbitrary additional
site-specific customizations. If this import fails with an
ImportError exception, it is silently ignored.
-Note that for some non-Unix systems, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix
-are empty, and then the path manipulations are skipped; however the
-import of sitecustomize is still attempted.
-
"""
import sys, os