Mailman 3 [issue41376] site.getusersitepackages() incorrectly claims that PYTHONNOUSERSITE is respected - docs

23 Jul 2020

      New submission from Phil Elson :

The documentation for site.getusersitepackages() states at https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/site.html#site.getusersitepackages:

Return the path of the user-specific site-packages directory, USER_SITE. If it is not initialized yet, this function will also set it, respecting PYTHONNOUSERSITE and USER_BASE.

Yet the implementation does not agree:

```
$ python  -c "import site; print(site.getusersitepackages())"
/home/user/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages

$ PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 python -c "import site; print(site.getusersitepackages())"
/home/user/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
```

(same result for -s and -I flags)

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 374139
nosy: docs@python, pelson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: site.getusersitepackages() incorrectly claims that PYTHONNOUSERSITE is respected
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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[issue41376] site.getusersitepackages() incorrectly claims that PYTHONNOUSERSITE is respected

Phil Elson

Phil Elson

Steve Dower

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miss-islington

miss-islington

Pablo Galindo Salgado

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