Commit 1d89cd6a authored by Terry Jan Reedy's avatar Terry Jan Reedy

Issue #21026: Augment site doc based on experiments. Patch by Carol Willing.

parent a3d3e191
......@@ -99,7 +99,11 @@ After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module named
:mod:`sitecustomize`, which can perform arbitrary site-specific customizations.
It is typically created by a system administrator in the site-packages
directory. If this import fails with an :exc:`ImportError` exception, it is
silently ignored.
silently ignored. If Python is started without output streams available, as
with :file:`pythonw.exe` on Windows (which is used by default to start IDLE),
attempted output from :mod:`sitecustomize` is ignored. Any exception other
than :exc:`ImportError` causes a silent and perhaps mysterious failure of the
process.
.. index:: module: usercustomize
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......@@ -1421,6 +1421,7 @@ Gerald S. Williams
Jason Williams
John Williams
Sue Williams
Carol Willing
Steven Willis
Frank Willison
Geoff Wilson
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