if __name__ == "__main__"

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Dec 19 17:46:15 EST 2001


Kevin Cazabon wrote:
> 
> In the namespace of the module that was the one actually executed,
> __name__ will be "__main__".  In all others, it will be something else
> (hmmm... what will it be, never thought about it?).

The name of the module!

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