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

[Aahz]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007, Steven Bethard 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:
> 
> 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.

Does this follow the axiom that 83% of all statistics are made up on the
spot?  ;-)  Seriously, if I'm writing a script that requires __main__,
chances are excellent that it already includes sys (because it's
probably a command-line script that's graduating to module status).
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