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r77209 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-01 07:07:05 -0600 (Fri, 01 Jan 2010) | 1 line
More yearly updates.
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r77229 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-02 06:35:01 -0600 (Sat, 02 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Fix casing.
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r77359 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-07 14:54:45 -0600 (Thu, 07 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Fix description for Py_GetPath(); it sounded like it always returned sys.path.
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r77360 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-07 15:48:47 -0600 (Thu, 07 Jan 2010) | 1 line
#7653: clarify how the PythonPath registry key should look like.
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r77371 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-01-08 13:20:25 -0600 (Fri, 08 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Fix for Issue7026. For the Error - RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index 650aec2..643628e 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -256,14 +256,15 @@
triple: module; search; path
single: path (in module sys)
- Return the default module search path; this is computed from the program name
- (set by :cfunc:`Py_SetProgramName` above) and some environment variables. The
- returned string consists of a series of directory names separated by a platform
- dependent delimiter character. The delimiter character is ``':'`` on Unix and
- Mac OS X, ``';'`` on Windows. The returned string points into static storage;
- the caller should not modify its value. The value is available to Python code
- as the list ``sys.path``, which may be modified to change the future search path
- for loaded modules.
+ Return the default module search path; this is computed from the program name
+ (set by :cfunc:`Py_SetProgramName` above) and some environment variables.
+ The returned string consists of a series of directory names separated by a
+ platform dependent delimiter character. The delimiter character is ``':'``
+ on Unix and Mac OS X, ``';'`` on Windows. The returned string points into
+ static storage; the caller should not modify its value. The list
+ :data:`sys.path` is initialized with this value on interpreter startup; it
+ can be (and usually is) modified later to change the search path for loading
+ modules.
.. XXX should give the exact rules