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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-12-02 18:02:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-12-02 18:02:01 +0000 |
| commit | de0ab5eab31c9ea9a628718778b0dc57df0d8470 (patch) | |
| tree | e235337f4e6279ce1511c31ad72947fb84c071bc | |
| parent | ee255681369dcda1104afb6b3df7438108f0f6b1 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-de0ab5eab31c9ea9a628718778b0dc57df0d8470.tar.gz | |
#10597: fix Py_SetPythonHome docs by pointing to where the meaning of PYTHONHOME is already documented.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/init.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst index dbceecc931..671ba2551d 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst @@ -412,8 +412,9 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads .. c:function:: void Py_SetPythonHome(wchar_t *home) Set the default "home" directory, that is, the location of the standard - Python libraries. The libraries are searched in - :file:`{home}/lib/python{version}` and :file:`{home}/lib/python{version}`. + Python libraries. See :envvar:`PYTHONHOME` for the meaning of the + argument string. + The argument should point to a zero-terminated character string in static storage whose contents will not change for the duration of the program's execution. No code in the Python interpreter will change the contents of |