From d68e0a8a165761604e820c8cb4f20abc735e717f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:15:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Issue3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (#18435) documentation for default locale directory Doc/library/gettext.rst changed to match gettext implementation line 63. --- Doc/library/gettext.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/gettext.rst b/Doc/library/gettext.rst index 937330bb201..ec2c12806b4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gettext.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gettext.rst @@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ implementations, and valuable experience to the creation of this module: .. [#] The default locale directory is system dependent; for example, on RedHat Linux it is :file:`/usr/share/locale`, but on Solaris it is :file:`/usr/lib/locale`. The :mod:`gettext` module does not try to support these system dependent - defaults; instead its default is :file:`{sys.prefix}/share/locale` (see - :data:`sys.prefix`). For this reason, it is always best to call + defaults; instead its default is :file:`{sys.base_prefix}/share/locale` (see + :data:`sys.base_prefix`). For this reason, it is always best to call :func:`bindtextdomain` with an explicit absolute path at the start of your application.