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gh-144329: Clarify that ._pth files are Windows-only in site module documentation #144335

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gh-144329: Clarify that ._pth files are Windows-only in site docs
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Expand Up @@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ directory rather than a file. No item is added to ``sys.path`` more than
once. Blank lines and lines beginning with ``#`` are skipped. Lines starting
with ``import`` (followed by space or tab) are executed.

.. note::

On Windows, a file whose name has the form :file:`._pth` is handled
differently; it is used exclusively by the Windows-only "embeddable
distribution" to provide a self-contained Python environment.

.. note::

An executable line in a :file:`.pth` file is run at every Python startup,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -308,4 +314,3 @@ value greater than 2 if there is an error.

* :pep:`370` -- Per user site-packages directory
* :ref:`sys-path-init` -- The initialization of :data:`sys.path`.

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