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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-01-09 19:56:33 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-01-09 19:56:33 (GMT)
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Fixed #1776. __import__() no longer imports modules by file name
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ 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.
+
- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar