From 0d8fcb233eefba35edd9c32c9805098ab57aca7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:32:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the doc string to emphasize non-Unix behavior earlier; sys.prefix is no longer empty on any platform that I know of. --- Lib/site.py | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py index aedcafab626..876c0d1c881 100644 --- a/Lib/site.py +++ b/Lib/site.py @@ -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/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/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