[Python-Dev] User's complaints

[Wolfgang Langner]

On 7/13/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ashemedai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Things that struck me as peculiar is the old:
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     whatever()
>
> This is so out of tune with the rest of python it becomes a nuisance.

It is not beautiful but very useful.
In Python 3000 we can replace it with:

@main
def whatever():
    ...

to mark this function as main function if module executed directly.

-- 
bye by Wolfgang