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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 14:57:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-02-22 14:57:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 9d2d327963fac62294c20fb4611071a30a609293 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 78303 via svnmerge from
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r78303 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 09:53:17 -0500 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line
#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 0a37f7b..7c59022 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1483,6 +1483,13 @@ 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 |