From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:31:46 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Closes #21026: Augment site doc based on experiments. Patch by Carol Willing. X-Git-Tag: v2.7.7rc1~34 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0fe1d0a59776d43f01879c1d39e21d17d80ad799;p=python Closes #21026: Augment site doc based on experiments. Patch by Carol Willing. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst index c45093111b..de3f7517b8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/site.rst +++ b/Doc/library/site.rst @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ 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 81d4aa9cc8..2d08627549 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