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.. Fix accents on Kristjan Valur Jonsson, Fuerstenau
.. Big jobs: ElementTree 1.3, pep 391, sysconfig
.. unittest test discovery
.. Big jobs: ElementTree 1.3, pep 391
.. hyperlink all the methods & functions.
.. T_STRING_INPLACE not described in main docs
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now accept an optional *flags* argument, for consistency with the
other functions in the module. (Added by Gregory P. Smith.)
* New function: :func:`~runpy.run_path` in the :mod:`runpy` module
will execute the code at a provided *path* argument. *path* can be
the path of a Python source file (:file:`example.py`), a compiled
bytecode file (:file:`example.pyc`), a directory
(:file:`./package/'), or a zip archive (:file:`example.zip`). If a
directory or zip path is provided, it will be added to the front of
``sys.path`` and the module :mod:`__main__` will be imported. It's
expected that the directory or zip contains a :file:`__main__.py`;
if it doesn't, some other :file:`__main__.py` might be imported from
a location later in ``sys.path``. This makes some of the machinery
of :mod:`runpy` available to scripts that want to mimic the behaviour
of Python's :option:`-m` switch. (Added by Nick Coghlan;
:issue:`6816`.)
* New function: in the :mod:`shutil` module, :func:`~shutil.make_archive`
takes a filename, archive type (zip or tar-format), and a directory
path, and creates an archive containing the directory's contents.
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New module: sysconfig
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XXX A new :mod:`sysconfig` module has been extracted from
:mod:`distutils` and put in the standard library.
The :mod:`sysconfig` module has been pulled out of the Distutils
package, becoming a new top-level module in its own right.
:mod:`sysconfig` provides functions for getting information about
Python's build process: compiler switches, installation paths, the
platform name, and whether Python is running from its source
directory.
Some of the functions in the module are:
* :func:`~sysconfig.get_config_var` returns variables from Python's
Makefile and the :file:`pyconfig.h` file.
* :func:`~sysconfig.get_config_vars` returns a dictionary containing
all of the configuration variables.
* :func:`~sysconfig.getpath` returns the configured path for
a particular type of module: the standard library,
site-specific modules, platform-specific modules, etc.
* :func:`~sysconfig.is_python_build` returns true if you're running a
binary from a Python source tree, and false otherwise.
Consult the :mod:`sysconfig` documentation for more details and for
a complete list of functions.
The Distutils package and :mod:`sysconfig` are now maintained and
renamed by Tarek Ziadé.
The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration
information like the list of installation paths and the configuration
variables relevant for the current platform. (contributed by Tarek)
Updated module: ElementTree 1.3
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