[Python-ideas] Just __main__

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin at kozea.fr> wrote:

> Le 19/06/2012 09:52, anatoly techtonik a écrit :
>
>  Here is one more problem - when module is executed as a script, it
>> loses its __name__, which becomes equal to '__main__'.
>>
>
> PEP 395 "Qualified Names for Modules" tries to address this.
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/**peps/pep-0395/<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0395/>
>
>
I agree that python does not need any magic __main__ function. The __main__
boolean is streets ahead in readability though.

Yuval
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