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| author | Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> | 2017-11-03 17:00:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg@gmail.com> | 2017-11-03 22:30:13 +0530 |
| commit | dcf3ac673680844047b65226f5571d3a9ad50fe3 (patch) | |
| tree | 02f99bfe1c5d6babd10c704e8cbfa1d2c2b31248 /docs/user_guide.rst | |
| parent | 87d2735487fe2e8296d777c43ecb9920a2201bd6 (diff) | |
| download | pip-dcf3ac673680844047b65226f5571d3a9ad50fe3.tar.gz | |
Documentation fixes (#4831)
- Wheel doesn't have a public API
- Reword warning about installing into a running interpreter
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/user_guide.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/user_guide.rst b/docs/user_guide.rst index 1c9f4636c..7e7db6389 100644 --- a/docs/user_guide.rst +++ b/docs/user_guide.rst @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ change without notice. While we do try not to break things as much as possible, the internal APIs can change at any time, for any reason. It also means that we generally *won't* fix issues that are a result of using pip in an unsupported way. -It should also be noted that modifying the contents of ``sys.path`` in a running Python +It should also be noted that installing packages into ``sys.path`` in a running Python process is something that should only be done with care. The import system caches certain data, and installing new packages while a program is running may not always behave as expected. In practice, there is rarely an issue, but it is something to be @@ -756,7 +756,5 @@ of ability. Some examples that you could consider include: * ``setuptools`` (specifically ``pkg_resources``) - Functions for querying what packages the user has installed on their system. -* ``wheel`` - Code for manipulating (creating, querying and installing) wheels. - * ``distlib`` - Packaging and distribution utilities (including functions for interacting with PyPI). |