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bpo-38623: Add note about site module (site-packages) (GH-16974) (GH-28537)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:48:26 +0000 (15:48 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:48:26 +0000 (00:48 +0200)
(cherry picked from commit 55b45bf707c6c8084db259fe2f8aa08e84ea0d99)

Co-authored-by: Peter Bittner <django@bittner.it>
Doc/tutorial/modules.rst

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@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ named :file:`spam.py` in a list of directories given by the variable
   file is specified).
 * :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the
   shell variable :envvar:`PATH`).
-* The installation-dependent default.
+* The installation-dependent default (by convention including a
+  ``site-packages`` directory, handled by the :mod:`site` module).
 
 .. note::
    On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input