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#7794: describe 2.6 support for executing directories and zip archives

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2010-02-22 14:53:17 +00:00
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@ -1481,6 +1481,13 @@ Other Language Changes
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