[docs] path specs in http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/site.html#module-site

[Georg Brandl]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Am 11.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Wolfgang Maier:
> Dear all,
> 
> the first paragraph of the documentation for the site module states that
> site.py constructs four directories using a head and tail part, and that
> 
> one of the tail parts would be lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on UNIX/Mac.
> 
> However, in my Python 3.2 installation on Ubuntu 12.04 this is actually 
> lib/python3/dist-packages (so no .Y and a different subdirectory) !
> 
> This is also stated in the module’s doc string.
> 
> I don’t know why the Python documentation says something else, but that
> should be fixed.

Hi Wolfgang,

the rename of site-packages to dist-packages is a specialty of Debian/Ubuntu,
which patches Python in that regard (that's why the docstring is correct for
their version).  Of course the online docs cannot know that you are using
Debian :)

I've create a patch to add a note in the site module docs that some
distributions change the default module search path, and it is for discussion
with the Debian maintainers on <http://bugs.python.org/issue17727>.

cheers,
Georg
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAlFqbGEACgkQN9GcIYhpnLAWcwCeKHwfdLmjlets1fW/AkzSZ/wJ
Qt0AnRqXF2YT9lYCKD8PpPfX/iWKdJ1T
=X6Zs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----