[Python-Dev] Adding zipfile and directory execution to What's New for Python 2.6.1? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 00:52:42 CET 2008


A trick we added to 2.6 that users seem to not notice is that it is now possible to execute zipfiles and directories from the command line by including a main.py module (that module will then be executed, but more importantly, the zipfile or directory name will be added to the beginning of sys.path so related modules can be found easily).

I went looking for this in the 2.6 What's New and couldn't find anything about it (certainly not in the most obvious section - the one that describes the other changes to the interpreter command line options and environment variables).

Did I just miss something? Or should more on this be added to the What's New for 2.6.1?

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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