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[Paddy]

On Feb 3, 10:53 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:51:56 -0300, "Gabriel Genellina"
> <gagsl... at yahoo.com.ar> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > menction that at all. And no one should expect that a beginner would have
> > to read section 26.3 on the Language Reference (__main__ -- Top-level
> > script environment) just to know what's that stuff about __name__  and
> > "__main__"...
>
>         OTOH: a true beginner, working out of the tutorial, is unlikely to
> be writing anything that really needs to know about this feature. For
> the most part, all this feature does is allow one to write safely
> importable modules (ie; modules that only define constants, classes, and
> functions when imported) that can also be used as stand-alone programs
> (often done to add test capability).

Maybe, but viewing their profile of past posts on Google I got the
feeling that fatwallet could be trying to understand existing code
soehow.

- Pad.