[Chicago] __name__ == "__main__"

[Dave Niesman]

If we are showing our dirty laundry...


import sys
from optparse import OptionParser

def ValidateArgs(argv):
    """
    validate command line arguments
    """
    success = True

    parser = OptionParser()

    parser.add_option("-e", "--echo",
                      action = "store_true",
                      dest="echo",
                      help="echo back the command line arguments")


    options, args = parser.parse_args(argv)

    return success, options, args


def main(argv=None):
    """
    Testable main function
    Usage:
        main() - use arguments from sys.argv
        main(["main.py", 1, 2, 3 "34"]) - provide arguments for test
    """
    if argv is None :
        argv = sys.argv[1:]


    success, options, args = ValidateArgs(argv)

    if success:
        if options.echo:
            i = 0
            for theArg in args:
                i += 1
                print "argv[" + str(i) + "]: " + theArg

if __name__ == '__main__' :
    sys.exit(main())

On 10/26/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Me as well.  When I have my thinking cap on I start with this:
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