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  r83421 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 20:52:52 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 25 lines

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    r83393 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:35:29 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #1690103: fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
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    r83396 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:52:32 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #4810: document "--" option separator in timeit help.
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    r83398 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 11:06:34 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8826: the "expires" attribute value is a date string with spaces, but apparently not all user-agents put it in quotes.  Handle that as a special case.
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    r83405 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 16:38:17 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #4943: do not try to include drive letters (and colons) when looking for a probably module name.
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    r83408 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 17:30:56 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #5551: symbolic links never can be mount points.  Fixes the fix for #1713.
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  r83424 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 21:02:09 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 29 lines

  Merged revisions 83385-83389,83391 via svnmerge from
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    r83385 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:42:45 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8773: mailbox.py does not need to be executable.
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    r83386 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:44:46 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8768: name test method properly so that it gets executed.
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    r83387 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:53:28 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #8735: better explain semantics of *values* argument for parse().
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    r83388 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 09:48:43 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    #7395: fix traceback in do_add() when no stats are loaded.  Apply same fix for do_sort() and do_reverse().
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    r83389 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 09:57:47 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    Small improvements to pstats browser: do not crash on reading invalid file, and actually do a reload when executing "read" as intended.
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    r83391 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:10:08 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

    Add another news entry.
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diff --git a/Lib/trace.py b/Lib/trace.py
index 6d5aef0..3611f88 100644
--- a/Lib/trace.py
+++ b/Lib/trace.py
@@ -195,11 +195,13 @@
         base = path[len(longest) + 1:]
     else:
         base = path
+    # the drive letter is never part of the module name
+    drive, base = os.path.splitdrive(base)
     base = base.replace(os.sep, ".")
     if os.altsep:
         base = base.replace(os.altsep, ".")
     filename, ext = os.path.splitext(base)
-    return filename
+    return filename.lstrip(".")
 
 class CoverageResults:
     def __init__(self, counts=None, calledfuncs=None, infile=None,
@@ -798,7 +800,16 @@
                   ignoredirs=ignore_dirs, infile=counts_file,
                   outfile=counts_file, timing=timing)
         try:
-            t.run('execfile(%r)' % (progname,))
+            with open(progname) as fp:
+                code = compile(fp.read(), progname, 'exec')
+            # try to emulate __main__ namespace as much as possible
+            globs = {
+                '__file__': progname,
+                '__name__': '__main__',
+                '__package__': None,
+                '__cached__': None,
+            }
+            t.runctx(code, globs, globs)
         except IOError, err:
             _err_exit("Cannot run file %r because: %s" % (sys.argv[0], err))
         except SystemExit: