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#7794: describe 3.1 support for executing directories and zip archives

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@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ Other Language Changes
Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
* Directories and zip archives containing a :file:`__main__.py`
file can now be executed directly by passing their name to the
interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
first entry in sys.path. (Suggestion and initial patch by Andy Chu;
revised patch by Phillip J. Eby and Nick Coghlan; :issue:`1739468`.)
* The :func:`int` type gained a ``bit_length`` method that returns the
number of bits necessary to represent its argument in binary::