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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 |