Py_SetPath: Path components separated by colons

[fwalch]

BPO	21687
Nosy	@eryksun

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[fwalch]

The documentation for Py_SetPath [1] states:

The path components should be separated by semicolons.

I believe this should not say "semicolons", but "colons"; the default path as output by Py_GetPath is separated by colons.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#c.Py_SetPath

[eryksun]

A Windows path uses ":" after the drive letter, e.g. "C:\\Windows", so the delimiter is a semicolon on Windows. Other platforms use a colon.

CPython uses DELIM, which is defined in osdefs.h. This header isn't included by Python.h.

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c0e311e010fc/Include/osdefs.h

[python-dev]

New changeset 2d150c01bf7e by Georg Brandl in branch '3.4':
Closes bpo-21687: delimiter in Py_SetPath is platform dependent
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2d150c01bf7e