February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
14h 53m
English
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Site Configuration Files
A typical Python installation may include a number of third-party modules and packages. To configure these packages, the interpreter first imports the module site. The role of site is to search for package files and to add additional directories to the module search path sys.path. In addition, the site module sets the default encoding for Unicode string conversions. For details on the site module, see Chapter 13, “Python Runtime Services.”