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Mention "site-packages" directory explictly

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Peter Bittner 2020-01-08 00:55:56 +01:00
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@ -191,18 +191,14 @@ named :file:`spam.py` in a list of directories given by the variable
file is specified).
* :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the
shell variable :envvar:`PATH`).
* The installation-dependent default.
* The installation-dependent default (by convention including a
``site-packages`` directory, handled by the :mod:`site` module).
.. note::
On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input
script is calculated after the symlink is followed. In other words the
directory containing the symlink is **not** added to the module search path.
.. note::
The :mod:`site` module is responsible for appending site-specific paths to
the module search path. It also provides a command line interface to print
a list of all module search paths (e.g. ``python -m site``).
After initialization, Python programs can modify :data:`sys.path`. The
directory containing the script being run is placed at the beginning of the
search path, ahead of the standard library path. This means that scripts in that