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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-02-22 15:24:43 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-02-22 15:24:43 (GMT)
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#7794: describe 3.1 support for executing directories and zip archives
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@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ 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::