Remove a confusing sentence about pth files and which directories are searched

for them.

Closes issue #1431.  Thanks Giambattista Bloisi for the help.

diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst
index c607eb93c55f4a75d243bb561ca8ef9cb36053aa..aa2d91598182f6797ce945863e2885fdde389026 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/install/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/install/index.rst
@@ -621,8 +621,7 @@ will not override standard modules.  This means you can't use this mechanism for
 installing fixed versions of standard modules.)
 
 Paths can be absolute or relative, in which case they're relative to the
-directory containing the :file:`.pth` file.  Any directories added to the search
-path will be scanned in turn for :file:`.pth` files.  See the documentation of
+directory containing the :file:`.pth` file.  See the documentation of
 the :mod:`site` module for more information.
 
 A slightly less convenient way is to edit the :file:`site.py` file in Python's