Tim Golden added the comment:

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
> 
>> .. but I have made the doc reference a link to the os.pathsep
> 
> I knew you would say that :-).  I was making my comment out of real life 
> experience: sysadmins rarely know python language, but can do good job 
> administering python installations.  For better or worse, the target 
> audience for PYTHONPATH documentation is likely not to be interested in 
> being educated in the python programming language.  Having to lookup the 
> meaning of os.pathsep just to understand the format of PYTHONPATH is a 
> distraction. Another problem with the link is that cmdline page is 
> likely to be printed out for a quick reference and the link will 
> obviously not work in the printout.

I don't feel strongly about it. Feel free to propose an alternative
wording for the patch :)

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