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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 14:53:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 14:53:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 6b2bd05b163507746223184d980599e6514774ac (patch) | |
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#7794: describe 2.6 support for executing directories and zip archives
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index c6f7c2d..1c517c0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1481,6 +1481,13 @@ 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 or zip archive is automatically inserted + as the first entry in sys.path. (Suggestion and initial patch by + Andy Chu, subsequently revised by Phillip J. Eby and Nick Coghlan; + :issue:`1739468`.) + * The :func:`hasattr` function was catching and ignoring all errors, under the assumption that they meant a :meth:`__getattr__` method was failing somehow and the return value of :func:`hasattr` would |