On 4/22/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This PEP is to change the ``if __name__ == "__main__": ...`` idiom to > ``if __name__ == sys.main: ...`` so that you at least have a chance > to execute module in a package that use relative imports. > > Ran this PEP past python-ideas. Stopped the discussion there when too > many new ideas were being proposed. =) I have listed all of them in > the Rejected Ideas section, although if overwhelming support for one > comes forward the PEP can shift to one of them.
I'm -1 on this and on any other proposed twiddlings of the __main__ machinery. The only use case seems to be running scripts that happen to be living inside a module's directory, which I've always seen as an antipattern. To make me change my mind you'd have to convince me that it isn't. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
