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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2014-04-29 00:31:53 -0400
committerTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2014-04-29 00:31:53 -0400
commit43e7cd38e50a0f63362768e3009ba515c8a475d7 (patch)
treef404adb9e4ed250cc08cc021eb96c169574e0f91
parentf9f54a2f5f25973f736046917d68106dd122c15d (diff)
downloadcpython-git-43e7cd38e50a0f63362768e3009ba515c8a475d7.tar.gz
Issue #21026: Augment site doc based on experiments. Patch by Carol Willing.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/site.rst6
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst
index 2fdf303c88..e57b8ccc2d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/site.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/site.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,11 @@ After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module named
:mod:`sitecustomize`, which can perform arbitrary site-specific customizations.
It is typically created by a system administrator in the site-packages
directory. If this import fails with an :exc:`ImportError` exception, it is
-silently ignored.
+silently ignored. If Python is started without output streams available, as
+with :file:`pythonw.exe` on Windows (which is used by default to start IDLE),
+attempted output from :mod:`sitecustomize` is ignored. Any exception other
+than :exc:`ImportError` causes a silent and perhaps mysterious failure of the
+process.
.. index:: module: usercustomize
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 6064bfd562..129e0a475f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1421,6 +1421,7 @@ Gerald S. Williams
Jason Williams
John Williams
Sue Williams
+Carol Willing
Steven Willis
Frank Willison
Geoff Wilson