Mailman 3 Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 328 and PEP 338, redux - Python-Dev

28 Jun 2006

      At 08:08 AM 6/27/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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Bad idea IMO. The __name__ == "__main__" rule is so ingrained, you
don't want to mess with it.
Actually, maybe we *do* want to, for this usage.

Note that until Python 2.5, it was not possible to do "python -m 
nested.module", so this change merely prevents *existing* modules from 
being run this way -- when they could not have been before!

So, such modules would require a minor change to run under -m.  Is this 
actually a problem, or is it a new feature?

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 328 and PEP 338, redux

Phillip J. Eby

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