[Python-ideas] PEP for executing a module in a package containing relative imports

[Adam Atlas]

On 19 Apr 2007, at 23.38, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Open Issues
> ===========
>
> A counter-proposal to introducing the ``__main__`` attribute on
> modules was to introduce a built-in with the same name.  The value of
> the built-in would be the name of the module being executed (just like
> the proposed ``sys.main``).  This would lead to a new idiom of::
>
>   if __name__ == __main__:
>       ...

I like that one. But one thing I've always thought would be handy is  
a builtin (maybe __this__?) pointing to the current module object  
itself (instead of its name). Any chance of that happening? In that  
case, __main__ could globally point to the main module instead of its  
name. The idiom would then be "if __this__ is __main__:...'. I think  
that reads pretty well: "If this is [the] main [module, then ...]."