From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:34:22 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [3.7] bpo-3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation... X-Git-Tag: v3.7.7rc1~48 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b888ad70aaed39df1985b38b4987feb5bee7981;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.7] bpo-3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (GH-18435) (GH-18439) documentation for default locale directory Doc/library/gettext.rst changed to match gettext implementation line 63. (cherry picked from commit d68e0a8a165761604e820c8cb4f20abc735e717f) Co-authored-by: Carl https://bugs.python.org/issue3950 Automerge-Triggered-By: @gvanrossum --- diff --git a/Doc/library/gettext.rst b/Doc/library/gettext.rst index 94ed340a22f2..c4e04832ed5f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gettext.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gettext.rst @@ -652,8 +652,8 @@ implementations, and valuable experience to the creation of this module: .. [#] The default locale directory is system dependent; for example, on RedHat Linux it is :file:`/usr/share/locale`, but on Solaris it is :file:`/usr/lib/locale`. The :mod:`gettext` module does not try to support these system dependent - defaults; instead its default is :file:`{sys.prefix}/share/locale` (see - :data:`sys.prefix`). For this reason, it is always best to call + defaults; instead its default is :file:`{sys.base_prefix}/share/locale` (see + :data:`sys.base_prefix`). For this reason, it is always best to call :func:`bindtextdomain` with an explicit absolute path at the start of your application.