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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 841837f..2c1972c 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -868,6 +868,12 @@ yellow 5 \item Integer operations will no longer trigger an \exception{OverflowWarning}. The \exception{OverflowWarning} warning will disappear in Python 2.5. +\item The interpreter gained a new switch, \programopt{-m}, that +takes a name, searches for the corresponding module on \code{sys.path}, +and runs the module as a script. For example, +you can now run the Python profiler with \code{python -m profile}. +(Contributed by Nick Coghlan.) + \item The \function{eval(\var{expr}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})} and \function{execfile(\var{filename}, \var{globals}, \var{locals})} functions and the \keyword{exec} statement now accept any mapping type |