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r78303 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 09:53:17 -0500 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line
#7794: describe 2.6 support for executing directories and zip archives
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
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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