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

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/22/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/22/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>
> > > 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:
>
> As long as we're in python-ideas, I'll throw out the radical
> suggestion of auto-importing sys into builtins, the way os autoimports
> path.

While that would address my concern, I wonder if adding sys to the
builtins is really any better than adding __main__ to the builtins.

STeVe
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