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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2009-11-16 06:49:25 +0000 |
| commit | 260bd3e5578008682f009530faa615f74c6bcf82 (patch) | |
| tree | 3dc3aab1aeb7fbe13350eba4c4437c371b4faffe /Misc | |
| parent | 36fbb730a72c0a00a2c2dc44d49b9b7af5a86174 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-260bd3e5578008682f009530faa615f74c6bcf82.tar.gz | |
Merged revisions 76286-76287,76289-76294,76296-76299,76301-76305,76307,76310-76311,76313-76322 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r76286 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-15 17:30:34 +1000 (Sun, 15 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Issue #6816: expose the zipfile and directory execution mechanism to Python code via the runpy module. Also consolidated some script execution functionality in the test harness into a helper module and removed some implementation details from the runpy module documentation.
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r76321 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-16 13:55:51 +1000 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Account for another cache when hunting ref leaks
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r76322 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-16 13:57:32 +1000 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Allow for backslashes in file paths passed to the regex engine
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@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ Library - Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina. +- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code + to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well + as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a + __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to + support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself. + - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for |