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| author | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-02-06 16:00:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2003-02-06 16:00:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 0253d6eff194a12e2e60bfb9f372de9825bdfab3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fd2dd6b427dfb6aee8891e92b7ee1ac519e4040 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | c9172d3832c2bbdf093f3ec428574d83407f46c8 (diff) | |
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Add news item about __module__ attribute on functions.
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@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ Core and builtins to convert a long integer into a float which couldn't fit. See SF bug #676155. +- Function objects now have an __module__ attribute that is bound to + the name of the module in which the function was defined. This + attribute is used by pickle.whichmodule(), which changes the + behavior of whichmodule slightly. In Python 2.2 whichmodule() + returns "__main__" for functions that are not defined at the + top-level of a module (examples: methods, nested functions). Now + whichmodule() will return the proper module name. + Extension modules ----------------- |