Usage of main()

[Ben Finney]

"Jan Kaliszewski" <zuo at chopin.edu.pl> writes:

> I understand you name global scope as 'main'. But (independently of
> using the __main__ idiom and so on) it is still good idea not to place
> to much code in the global scope but to place your app-logic code in
> functions -- because, as we noted:
>
> * in practice it is considerably faster,
>
> * it helps you with using functions & class browsers.

* having a module that can be imported without side effects helps select
  pieces of the module's functionality

* any module should be importable without side effects to make it easier
  to run unit tests for that module

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Ben Finney