[Python-Dev] "if __name__ == '__main__'" at the bottom of python unittest files

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:24:53 +0100
Chris Withers <chris at withers.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a crazy idea of getting unittest.mock up to 100% code coverage.
> 
> I noticed at the bottom of all of the test files in testmock/, there's a:
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>      unittest.main()
> 
> ...block.
> 
> How would people feel about these going away? I don't *think* they're 
> needed now that we have unittest discover, but thought I'd ask.

If you are only asking to remove them because you want that score of
100% coverage, then I think you shouldn't.

Regards

Antoine.