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

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/22/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
> > I think this PEP now needs to explicitly state that keeping the "am I
> > the main module?" idiom as simple as possible is *not* a goal. Because
> > everything I've seen (except for the original proposals in the PEP)
> > are substantially more complicated than the current::
> >
> >     if __name__ == '__main__':
> >
>
> I'm proposing the following changes:
>
> * sys.main is added which contains the dotted name of the main script.
>    This allows code like:
>
>      if __name__ == sys.main:
>          ...

Note that this really requires the code::

    import sys
    if __name__ == sys.main:

The import statement matters to me because 77% of my modules that use
the __main__ idiom *don't* import sys. Hence, for those modules, this
new idiom introduces more boilerplate.

STeVe
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