From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:04:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backdated NEWS entry to record the implementation of PEP 338 for alpha 1
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a2~54
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4383230b904c6bd453a562f7bf379887eb43d464;p=python

Backdated NEWS entry to record the implementation of PEP 338 for alpha 1
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 03099d1e57..6f3880ed2c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
+  allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
+
 - On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
   extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
   end in .PYD.
@@ -670,6 +673,10 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
+  executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
+  via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
+
 - The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
   flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
   be set.