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r67750 | nick.coghlan | 2008-12-14 20:54:50 +1000 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Fix several issues relating to access to source code inside zipfiles. Initial work by Alexander Belopolsky. See Misc/NEWS in this checkin for details.
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r67751 | nick.coghlan | 2008-12-14 21:09:40 +1000 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line
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Library
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+- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
+ for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
+ loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
+
+- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
+ zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
+ Alexander Belopolsky.
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+- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
+ 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
+ are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
+ from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
+ perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
+ Alexander Belopolsky.
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+- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
+ allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
+ Alexander Belopolsky.
+
- Issue #4163: textwrap module: allow word splitting on a hyphen preceded by
a non-ASCII letter.