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Author richard
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Date 2008-07-25.04:09:05
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The Python 2.5 "-m" command-line option allowed execution of a package
directly, by invoking the __init__.py module.

Python 2.6 no longer allows this.

This is a quite unfortunate regression, and I would urge the decision to
hobble it to be reconsidered.
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