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

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/20/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> What about
>
>     import sys
>     if __name__ == sys.main:
>         ...
>
> You won't have to introduce a new global module var __name__ and it's
> easy to understand for newbies and experienced developers. The code is
> only executed when the name of the current module is equal to the
> executed main module (sys.main).

But you have to understand a few things to understand why this works.
You have to know that __name__ is the name of the module, and that if
you want to find out the name of the main module, you need to look at
sys.main.  With the idiom::

    if __main__:

all you need to know is that the main module has __main__ set to true.

> IMO it's much less PIT...B then introducing __main__.

Could you elaborate? Do you think it would be hard to introduce
another module-level attribute (like we already do for __name__)? Or
do you think that the code would be hard to maintain? Or something
else...?

Steve
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