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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 15:19:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 15:19:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 19219b41e84f636b4d5c3f19eac19db9302e7956 (patch) | |
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| parent | 8894bb0920f288cb1f8f140d80d72a3bed654d20 (diff) | |
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#7794: describe 3.1 support for executing directories and zip archives
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst index 2179bf7..b4f95a7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst @@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ Other Language Changes Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: +* Directories and zip archives containing a :file:`__main__.py` + file can now be executed directly by passing their name to the + interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the + first entry in sys.path. (Suggestion and initial patch by Andy Chu; + revised patch by Phillip J. Eby and Nick Coghlan; :issue:`1739468`.) + * The :func:`int` type gained a ``bit_length`` method that returns the number of bits necessary to represent its argument in binary:: |