[Python-ideas] making a module callable

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:21:41PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

> >@mainfunction
> >def main(args):
> >    assert args == sys.argv[1:]
> 
> Now we can have an argument about whether args should include
> sys.argv[0] or not...

Of course it should :-)

I'm serious, by the way. It's a nice Unix trick to have a single 
executable do different things depending on what name it is called by. 
Inspecting argv[0] lets you do that.


-- 
Steven