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@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ Library - Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina. +- 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 |