Is there Python equivalent to Perl BEGIN{} block?

[Paddy]

On Mar 13, 7:03 pm, Jonathan Gardner <jgard... at jonathangardner.net>
wrote:
> On Mar 12, 6:37 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:

<<Snip>>
>
> And leave out the magical -p and -n. If you want to iterate through a
> file, "for line in sys.stdin:".

Or better still:

    import fileinput
    for line in fileinput.input():
        process(line)

- Paddy.