From 8dffa0e5cf0640fe7f3ca2a4940f97889397f0a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:16:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fix PYTHONPATH wording. It's just PATH, not "normal posix convention". --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index ed698764598..b1ef2775b23 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1616,14 +1616,13 @@ that may require changes to your code. Changes in 'python' command behavior ------------------------------------ -* 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