Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > The table headings 'Standard installation location' (of what?) Of software projects using distutils.
> and 'Default value' (for what program?) For a CPython without changes to the default build configuration. > both seem a bit ambiguous, or rather they seem reversed to me. I > would label the columns 'Default module directory' and 'Standard > Python location'. Well, no: the first column does not contain real paths, but templates with placeholders like prefix and X.Y. The second column gives the path with the placeholders replaced by their default value. > That said, I hope that the actual default module installation > directory for install is the actual site-packages directory on > my machine, based on where I actually put python, Yes. > and not the non-existent standard location, which I did not use > but which is what the text seems to say (but which would be a > behavior design bug to me). “Default” means “if you haven’t made any change to the build/install configuration of Python”. Do these replies make sense? If so, I can rephrase them as a doc patch. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13030> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
