Commit d26222de authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

Fix PYTHONPATH wording. It's just PATH, not "normal posix convention".

parent d783bc3b
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Changes in 'python' command behavior
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* In a posix shell, setting an environment variable to an empty value is
generally equivalent to not setting it at all. In particular, this is true
for the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable. However, setting
* In a posix shell, setting the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable to
an empty value is equivalent to not setting it at all. However, setting
:envvar:`PYTHONPATH` to an empty value was *not* equivalent to not setting it
at all: setting :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` to an empty value was equivalent to
setting it to ``.``, which leads to confusion when reasoning by analogy to
how :envvar:`PATH` works. The behavior now conforms to the normal posix
convention.
how :envvar:`PATH` works. The behavior now conforms to the posix convention
for :envvar:`PATH`.
Changes in the Python API
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