Closes #23746: merged update from 3.5.

10 years ago · bb10859152
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
@ -204,7 +204,9 @@ Other functions

 .. function:: is_python_build()

-   Return ``True`` if the current Python installation was built from source.
+   Return ``True`` if the running Python interpreter was built from source and
+   is being run from its built location, and not from a location resulting from
+   e.g. running ``make install`` or installing via a binary installer.


 .. function:: parse_config_h(fp[, vars])