newb: What is the purpose of if __name__ == "__main__":
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 22:10:56 EST 2006
johnny wrote:
> What is the purpose of
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>
> If you have a module, does it get called automatically?
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-main.html
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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