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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2008-01-10 05:42:58 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2008-01-10 05:42:58 (GMT)
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Reword entry, not sure I made it much better though.
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@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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-- Bug #1776: __import__ must not accept filenames. Python 2.6 does no longer
- support module loading by filename. It worked on some system by coincident
- but it was never intended to work.
+- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
+ The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.