From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:24:53 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Issue3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (GH... X-Git-Tag: v3.8.2rc2~26 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a83d9108066a7a22605ba7ee962a755f4bec1ab1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue3950: Fix docs for default locale used by gettext to match implementation (GH-18435) 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 --- diff --git a/Doc/library/gettext.rst b/Doc/library/gettext.rst index 937330bb201b..ec2c12806b41 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gettext.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gettext.rst @@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ 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.