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diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst index e57b8ccc2d..43daf790b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/site.rst +++ b/Doc/library/site.rst @@ -26,24 +26,23 @@ additions, call the :func:`site.main` function. :option:`-S`. .. index:: - pair: site-python; directory pair: site-packages; directory It starts by constructing up to four directories from a head and a tail part. For the head part, it uses ``sys.prefix`` and ``sys.exec_prefix``; empty heads are skipped. For the tail part, it uses the empty string and then :file:`lib/site-packages` (on Windows) or -:file:`lib/python{X.Y}/site-packages` and then :file:`lib/site-python` (on -Unix and Macintosh). For each of the distinct head-tail combinations, it sees -if it refers to an existing directory, and if so, adds it to ``sys.path`` and -also inspects the newly added path for configuration files. +:file:`lib/python{X.Y}/site-packages` (on Unix and Macintosh). For each +of the distinct head-tail combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing +directory, and if so, adds it to ``sys.path`` and also inspects the newly +added path for configuration files. -.. deprecated:: 3.4 - Support for the "site-python" directory will be removed in 3.5. +.. versionchanged:: 3.5 + Support for the "site-python" directory has been removed. If a file named "pyvenv.cfg" exists one directory above sys.executable, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to that directory and -it is also checked for site-packages and site-python (sys.base_prefix and +it is also checked for site-packages (sys.base_prefix and sys.base_exec_prefix will always be the "real" prefixes of the Python installation). If "pyvenv.cfg" (a bootstrap configuration file) contains the key "include-system-site-packages" set to anything other than "false" @@ -184,7 +183,7 @@ Module contents unless the Python interpreter was started with the :option:`-S` flag. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 - This function used to be called unconditionnally. + This function used to be called unconditionally. .. function:: addsitedir(sitedir, known_paths=None) @@ -195,8 +194,7 @@ Module contents .. function:: getsitepackages() - Return a list containing all global site-packages directories (and possibly - site-python). + Return a list containing all global site-packages directories. .. versionadded:: 3.2 |