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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2004-10-07 12:00:33 (GMT)
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\item Integer operations will no longer trigger an \exception{OverflowWarning}.
The \exception{OverflowWarning} warning will disappear in Python 2.5.
+\item The interpreter gained a new switch, \programopt{-m}, that
+takes a name, searches for the corresponding module on \code{sys.path},
+and runs the module as a script. For example,
+you can now run the Python profiler with \code{python -m profile}.
+(Contributed by Nick Coghlan.)
+
\item The \function{eval(\var{expr}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})}
and \function{execfile(\var{filename}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})}
functions and the \keyword{exec} statement now accept any mapping type