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

[Skip Montanaro]

> I still don't think the current idiom is problematic, so I'm -0.8 on
> the whole thing :-)

I'm with Antoine. I don't find it particularly onerous to type (how often
do you start a new program/script from scratch anyway?), and if it was a
big enough barrier, I'd capture the keystrokes in an Emacs macro (including
skeletal main and usage functions, and corresponding imports of sys and os
modules). I trust vim users could do something similar.

Skip
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