[Python-checkins] [3.7] bpo-3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (GH-18435) (GH-18439)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3b888ad70aaed39df1985b38b4987feb5bee7981
commit: 3b888ad70aaed39df1985b38b4987feb5bee7981
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
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date: 2020-02-10T13:34:22-08:00
summary:

[3.7] bpo-3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (GH-18435) (GH-18439)



documentation for default locale directory Doc/library/gettext.rst changed to match gettext implementation line 63.
(cherry picked from commit d68e0a8a165761604e820c8cb4f20abc735e717f)


Co-authored-by: Carl <Carl-Ty at users.noreply.github.com>


https://bugs.python.org/issue3950



Automerge-Triggered-By: @gvanrossum

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M Doc/library/gettext.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/gettext.rst b/Doc/library/gettext.rst
index 94ed340a22f20..c4e04832ed5f9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gettext.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gettext.rst
@@ -652,8 +652,8 @@ 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.