[Tutor] diving into py question

[Max Noel]

On May 19, 2005, at 22:18, Chelan Farsight wrote:

> I am using the online book Dive Into Python.
> I ran the first program given and have run into an error on line 7 at
> the colon.  Now I imagine that there is probably a corrections page at
> the site, but I am interested in knowing why it won't work as much as
> what I need to do to correct it.  Any help would be appreciated.  The
> script follows:
>
>
> if_name_ == "_main_":

     The number of underscores is incorrect. "Magic" names in Python  
start and end with two underscores. The line should be changed to:


if __name__ == "__main__":


Hope that helps,
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