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

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 01:28:59 CET 2008

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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?

Feel free to add it! There were so many new things in 2.6, that we were bound to miss a few things.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's nothing quite as beautiful as an oboe... except a chicken stuck in a vacuum cleaner."

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