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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-06-20 07:30:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-06-20 07:30:34 -0700 |
| commit | 6af513e0cd01bc8a83592d752f1d12ffc58163cd (patch) | |
| tree | f629c5f53e007a9c489e79eff9110be34632424e /Doc/tutorial | |
| parent | e3b4918fb740335952990c22a78062d9becf237e (diff) | |
| download | cpython-6af513e0cd01bc8a83592d752f1d12ffc58163cd.tar.gz | |
Fix closes Issue12359 - Removing a confusing sentence from the previous change.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/modules.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst index 2451fd5701..3254a80437 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst @@ -160,13 +160,13 @@ The Module Search Path .. index:: triple: module; search; path When a module named :mod:`spam` is imported, the interpreter searches for a -file named :file:`spam.py` in the directory containing the input script (or -the current directory), and then in the list of directories specified by the -environment variable :envvar:`PYTHONPATH`. This has the same syntax as the -shell variable :envvar:`PATH`, that is, a list of directory names. When -:envvar:`PYTHONPATH` is not set, or when the file is not found there, the -search continues in an installation-dependent default path; on Unix, this is -usually :file:`.:/usr/local/lib/python`. +file named :file:`spam.py` in the directory containing the input script and +then in the list of directories specified by the environment variable +:envvar:`PYTHONPATH`. This has the same syntax as the shell variable +:envvar:`PATH`, that is, a list of directory names. When :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` +is not set, or when the file is not found there, the search continues in an +installation-dependent default path; on Unix, this is usually +:file:`.:/usr/local/lib/python`. Actually, modules are searched in the list of directories given by the variable ``sys.path`` which is initialized from the directory containing the input script |
