[Python-checkins] bpo-38623: Add note about site module (site-packages) (GH-16974) (GH-28536)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/87f97fe5e6434da51246d70af9e2cd7d63c29fba
commit: 87f97fe5e6434da51246d70af9e2cd7d63c29fba
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2021-09-24T00:48:06+02:00
summary:
bpo-38623: Add note about site module (site-packages) (GH-16974) (GH-28536)
(cherry picked from commit 55b45bf707c6c8084db259fe2f8aa08e84ea0d99)
Co-authored-by: Peter Bittner <django at bittner.it>
files:
M Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
index a495c50cbde88..f1d4957e37eb1 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ named :file:`spam.py` in a list of directories given by the variable
file is specified).
* :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the
shell variable :envvar:`PATH`).
-* The installation-dependent default.
+* The installation-dependent default (by convention including a
+ ``site-packages`` directory, handled by the :mod:`site` module).
.. note::
On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input
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