Re: [Python-ideas] Module aliases and/or "real names"

(This is probably something that was suggested more than a few times before.)

Would it help if global name space acquired a __main__ name?  Then the standard if line becomes only a slightly different "if __name__ == __main__: main()".  I think that would make more sense to beginners also and it is a bit less magical.

For now, both ways could work, __main__ would be "__main__" or None, but down the road, (long enough to be sure everyone knows to drop the quotes), both __main__ and __name__ could be switched to the actual module name so that __name__ and __module__ attributes would always be correct.