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  r74795 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-14 22:36:26 -0500 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Py_SetPythonHome uses static storage #6913
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index 938ea2088cca810ef041e8360d5dd2748e54d3b1..7beb211f721803dbe9b2c71bf5d4003b0af12617 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -374,6 +374,10 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    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}`.
+   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
+   this storage.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: char* Py_GetPythonHome()