anatoly techtonik added the comment:
Now I get it. That's much better. Thanks. =)
After rereading the description with this new info I spot that __main__ is called a module, which is not true, because it is only a module name. It makes sense to enclose it in quotes in title as well.
I'd reword this:
{{{
This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the interpreter’s main program executes — commands read either from standard input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. It is this environment in which the idiomatic “conditional script” stanza causes a script to run:
}}}
to this:
{{{
This __name__ value represents (otherwise anonymous) scope of the program’s main module in the interpreter. __name__ becomes equal to '__main__' when commands read either from standard input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. For example, a common way to add code to module that will only be executable when run as a script is to place it into the following if block:
}}}
Not academic, but practical.
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Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue15104
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