[Python-checkins] r78310 - python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
andrew.kuchling
python-checkins at python.org
Mon Feb 22 16:19:06 CET 2010
Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Mon Feb 22 16:19:05 2010
New Revision: 78310
Log:
#7794: describe 3.1 support for executing directories and zip archives
Modified:
python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
Modified: python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
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--- python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst (original)
+++ python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst Mon Feb 22 16:19:05 2010
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@
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/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
+ first entry in sys.path. (Suggestion and initial patch by Andy Chu;
+ revised patch by Phillip J. Eby and Nick Coghlan; :issue:`1739468`.)
+
* The :func:`int` type gained a ``bit_length`` method that returns the
number of bits necessary to represent its argument in binary::
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