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  r69419 | nick.coghlan | 2009-02-08 11:26:34 +1000 (Sun, 08 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 4195: Restore the ability to execute packages with the -m switch (but this time in a way that leaves the import machinery in a valid state). (Original patch by Andi Vajda)
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  r69420 | nick.coghlan | 2009-02-08 11:46:01 +1000 (Sun, 08 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Mention patch submitter in NEWS entry for r69419
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the implementation may not always enforce this (e.g. it may allow you to
use a name that includes a hyphen).
Package names are also permitted. When a package name is supplied instead
of a normal module, the interpreter will execute ``<pkg>.__main__`` as
the main module. This behaviour is deliberately similar to the handling
of directories and zipfiles that are passed to the interpreter as the
script argument.
.. note::
This option cannot be used with builtin modules and extension modules
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.. seealso::
:func:`runpy.run_module`
The actual implementation of this feature.
Equivalent functionality directly available to Python code
:pep:`338` -- Executing modules as scripts
.. versionchanged:: 3.1
Supply the package name to run a ``__main__`` submodule.
.. describe:: -
Read commands from standard input (:data:`sys.stdin`). If standard input is