[Python-ideas] Replacing the if __name__ == "__main__" idiom (was Re: making a module callable)

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> Haoyi Li wrote:
>
>> Import hooks don't work with __main__ =( I spent a while trying to get it
>> to work when working on MacroPy, to no avail.
>>
>
> It's hard to see how they could. How would you *install*
> an import hook before __main__ got imported?


*Don't do this*... but you can abuse sitecustomize:
http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/site.html

-gps
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