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gh-156517: Clarify that site.getsitepackages() doesn't check for existance #156524

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Clarify `sys.getsitepackages()` docs re. checking for existance
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Expand Up @@ -453,9 +453,10 @@ Module contents

Return a list containing all global site-packages directories.
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For each directory present in *prefixes* (or :data:`PREFIXES` if *prefixes*
is ``None``), this function will find its site-packages subdirectory
depending on the system environment, and will return a list of full paths.
For each directory given in *prefixes* (or :data:`PREFIXES` if *prefixes*
is ``None``), this function will compute its site-packages subdirectory
depending on the system environment, and will return a list of full paths,
which are not checked for existence.

.. versionadded:: 3.2

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