diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst index dcfbc486eeb358..d210f82f3926f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst @@ -220,10 +220,16 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised. load a module. Also raised when the "from list" in ``from ... import`` has a name that cannot be found. - The :attr:`name` and :attr:`path` attributes can be set using keyword-only - arguments to the constructor. When set they represent the name of the module - that was attempted to be imported and the path to any file which triggered - the exception, respectively. + The optional *name* and *path* keyword-only arguments + set the corresponding attributes: + + .. attribute:: name + + The name of the module that was attempted to be imported. + + .. attribute:: path + + The path to any file which triggered the exception. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 Added the :attr:`name` and :attr:`path` attributes. diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst index ea3b2e996574ef..ebd78917a01373 100644 --- a/Doc/library/site.rst +++ b/Doc/library/site.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Importing this module will append site-specific paths to the module search path and add a few builtins, unless :option:`-S` was used. In that case, this module can be safely imported with no automatic modifications to the module search path or additions to the builtins. To explicitly trigger the usual site-specific -additions, call the :func:`site.main` function. +additions, call the :func:`main` function. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 Importing the module used to trigger paths manipulation even when using @@ -109,32 +109,40 @@ directory precedes the :file:`foo` directory because :file:`bar.pth` comes alphabetically before :file:`foo.pth`; and :file:`spam` is omitted because it is not mentioned in either path configuration file. -.. index:: pair: module; sitecustomize +:mod:`sitecustomize` +-------------------- + +.. module:: sitecustomize 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` or its subclass -exception, and the exception's :attr:`name` attribute equals to ``'sitecustomize'``, +exception, and the exception's :attr:`~ImportError.name` +attribute equals to ``'sitecustomize'``, it is 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 other exception causes a silent and perhaps mysterious failure of the process. -.. index:: pair: module; usercustomize +:mod:`usercustomize` +-------------------- + +.. module:: usercustomize After this, an attempt is made to import a module named :mod:`usercustomize`, which can perform arbitrary user-specific customizations, if -:data:`ENABLE_USER_SITE` is true. This file is intended to be created in the +:data:`~site.ENABLE_USER_SITE` is true. This file is intended to be created in the user site-packages directory (see below), which is part of ``sys.path`` unless disabled by :option:`-s`. If this import fails with an :exc:`ImportError` or -its subclass exception, and the exception's :attr:`name` attribute equals to -``'usercustomize'``, it is silently ignored. +its subclass exception, and the exception's :attr:`~ImportError.name` +attribute equals to ``'usercustomize'``, it is silently ignored. Note that for some non-Unix systems, ``sys.prefix`` and ``sys.exec_prefix`` are empty, and the path manipulations are skipped; however the import of :mod:`sitecustomize` and :mod:`usercustomize` is still attempted. +.. currentmodule:: site .. _rlcompleter-config: diff --git a/Doc/tools/.nitignore b/Doc/tools/.nitignore index bd79e4445062e3..90a66ac8a282a0 100644 --- a/Doc/tools/.nitignore +++ b/Doc/tools/.nitignore @@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ Doc/library/select.rst Doc/library/selectors.rst Doc/library/shelve.rst Doc/library/signal.rst -Doc/library/site.rst Doc/library/smtplib.rst Doc/library/socket.rst Doc/library/socketserver.rst @@ -127,7 +126,6 @@ Doc/library/stdtypes.rst Doc/library/string.rst Doc/library/subprocess.rst Doc/library/sunau.rst -Doc/library/sys_path_init.rst Doc/library/syslog.rst Doc/library/tarfile.rst Doc/library/telnetlib.rst