Commit 0d8fcb23 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Update the doc string to emphasize non-Unix behavior earlier;

sys.prefix is no longer empty on any platform that I know of.
parent bc5062f6
......@@ -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
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