[Tutor] Need help with a couple of concepts

[Gerrit Holl]

<quote name="Robin B. Lake" date="952089204" email="rbl@hal.cwru.edu">
> Long-time programming.  Understand most of the Python *language*.
> Need help with some of the constructs to get a Python program going.
> 
> Running Python on a Mac G3.
> 
> 1.  Am modifying some code.  There is at the bottom:
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> 	main()
> 
> and after the imports:
> 
> def main():
> 
> What is this all about?

If a Python program is run as a script, the value of the __name__
variable is set to '__main__'; this is not executed if the program
is imported as a Python module.

</quote>

regards,
Gerrit.

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