"Compile time" checking?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1123703058.378299.133980 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Qopit wrote:

> Now I'm running into another snag when checking some other code I have.
>  Pychecker gets hung up on raw_input... it actually executes code
> rather than just checking it, it seems.  For example, the snippet below
> hangs pychecker::
> 
> #---
> while 1:
>   x = raw_input("meh:")
> #---
> 
> Curious.

AFAIK `pylint` tries to avoid running the code.

A common idiom to protect code from being executed, if the module is just
imported opposed to executed as main module, is to write::

  def foo():
      # some code

  if __name__ == '__main__':
      foo()

`__name__` is set to the module name if the module will be imported but to
'__main__' if the module is directly executed.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch