[ python-Bugs-1348477 ] pydoc seems to run some scripts!

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Bugs item #1348477, was opened at 2005-11-04 12:10
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Category: Demos and Tools
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Olly Betts (olly)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: pydoc seems to run some scripts!

Initial Comment:
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"
Linux 2.6.10
Python 2.4.2

Running pydoc on some scripts (for example regextest.py
as supplied with python) just seems to hang:

pydoc
/usr/share/doc/python2.4/examples/Demo/comparisons/regextest.py

Feeding it EOF (Ctrl-D) makes it actually generate
documentation and exit.

But as well as showing the documentation, I get output
which appears to be the script actually having run with
itself as an argument!

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>Comment By: Bob Ippolito (etrepum)
Date: 2005-11-07 21:45

Message:
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Some scripts are broken, this one is missing a check to see if it's a script 
or a module:
if __name__ == "__main__": main()

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