Docs for setPythonHome

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 Such property file is also written for each build and is found in ``build/lib-<os-platform>-<python-version>/jpyconfig.properties``.
 
+Setting PYTHONHOME
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+If the environment variable ``PYTHONHOME`` is not set when you call Python from Java, you may get an error about
+file system encodings not being found. It is possible to set the location of Python from your
+Java program.  Use ``PyLib.setPythonHome(pathToPythonHome)`` to do that, where ``pathToPythonHome`` is a ``String`` that 
+contains the location of the Python installation.
 
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