Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Langner wrote: > > >>On 7/13/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Things that struck me as peculiar is the old: >>> >>>if __name__ == "__main__": >>> whatever() >>> >>>This is so out of tune with the rest of python it becomes a nuisance. >>> >>> >>It is not beautiful but very useful. >>In Python 3000 we can replace it with: >> >>@main >>def whatever(): >> ... >> >>to mark this function as main function if module executed directly. >> >> > >Why not simply: > > def __main__(): > ... > >or even pass in the command-line arguments: > > def __main__(*args): > ... > >Having to 'import sys' to get at the command-line arguments always >seemed awkward to me. 'import sys' feels like it should be a >privileged operation (access to interpreter internals), and getting >the command-line args isn't privileged. > > +1, seems a lot more elegant than "if __name__ == '__main__'"
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