Also, I routinely write scripts that have no `if __name__ == '__main__'` line at all, they just run - no-one should ever import them, so it makes no difference. And I exit (in multiple places) using `raise SystemExit("reason")`. My point being that yes, there are *lots* of ways of writing Python scripts/programs. Why "bless" one of them as being somehow superior? Paul On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 02:02, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
On 29/05/20 8:05 am, tritium-list@sdamon.com wrote:
People write main entry points that are not exactly this?
If __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
It's not clear that exiting with the return value of main() is the most Pythonic thing to do -- it's more of a C idiom that doesn't seem so useful when exceptions exist.
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