New submission from Tim Golden:
The docs for the PYTHONPATH var indicate that its items are separated by
colons. In fact they're separated by whatever's customary for the O/S.
Patch attached.
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components: Documentation
files: doc-using-cmdline-r61249.patch
keywords: patch
messages:
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
PYTHONPATH variable is likely to be defined by sysadmins who may not know
what os.pathsep is. Maybe it is better to say OS-dependent separator
(';' on Windows, ':' on Linux and other UNIX-like OSes or ',' on some
less-known systems.)
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nosy:
Tim Golden added the comment:
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
PYTHONPATH variable is likely to be defined by sysadmins who may not know
what os.pathsep is. Maybe it is better to say OS-dependent separator
(';' on Windows, ':' on Linux and other
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
.. but I have made the doc reference a link to the os.pathsep
I knew you would say that :-). I was making my comment out of real life
experience: sysadmins rarely know python language, but can do good job
administering python installations. For
Tim Golden added the comment:
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
.. but I have made the doc reference a link to the os.pathsep
I knew you would say that :-). I was making my comment out of real life
experience: sysadmins rarely know python language, but
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
Feel free to propose an alternative wording for the patch
I thought I already did in my first post. The complete sentence should
read:
The format is the same as the shell's :envvar:`PATH`: one or more
directory pathnames separated by an
Tim Golden added the comment:
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
Feel free to propose an alternative wording for the patch
I thought I already did in my first post. The complete sentence should
read:
The format is the same as the shell's
Georg Brandl added the comment:
I took the best of both worlds and committed in r61255.
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resolution: - fixed
status: open - closed
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http://bugs.python.org/issue2239
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