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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/site.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/site.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py index 47eda24..01086b7 100644 --- a/Lib/site.py +++ b/Lib/site.py @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ import, this is no longer necessary (but code that does it still works). This will append site-specific paths 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 +Unix (including Mac OSX), 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 (such as Windows), it tries each of the +prefixes directly, as well as with lib/site-packages appended. The resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and also inspected for path configuration files. |