On 4/21/07, Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> wrote:
If you like to introduce __main__ why not implement http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0299 ? It proposes a __main__(*argv*) module level function that replaced the "if __name__ == '__main__'" idiom. The __main__ function follows the example of other programming languages like C, C# and Java.
I don't like the __main__ function signature. There are lots of options, like optparse and argparse_ that are much better than manually parsing sys.argv as the PEP 299 signature would suggest. And if there's nothing to be passed to the function, why make it a function at all? Personally, I thought one of the pluses of the current status quo (as well as what Brett is proposing here) is that it *didn't* follow in the (misplaced IMHO) footsteps of languages like C and Java. I think we're probably best letting dead PEPs lie. .. _argparse: http://argparse.python-hosting.com/ STeVe -- I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy