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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2009-11-15 07:30:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2009-11-15 07:30:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 49868cb686954e57a6ab6bfea2cefeefb86305b1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 51200277b23fd9faca5f03dae127221e9b67e7f1 (diff) | |
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Issue #6816: expose the zipfile and directory execution mechanism to Python code via the runpy module. Also consolidated some script execution functionality in the test harness into a helper module and removed some implementation details from the runpy module documentation.
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@@ -429,6 +429,12 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code + to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well + as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a + __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to + support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself. + - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for |