Note on PEP 299

bearophileHUGS@lycos.com · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 198

I don't like much the syntax of:
if __name__ == '__main__':

Some time ago I have read this PEP:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0299/

And why it was refused:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062955.html

I think the name of the standard main function may be just main(), so
there isn't the problem with the import (and *maybe* the problem with
multiple Python versions can be ignored with Python 3.0).

If a module contains the main(), the main() is executed when the module
is run alone. Otherwise you can import the module, with the main()
function managed as a normal function.

Bye,
bearophile

Terry Reedy · *nix forums Guru Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 544

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