Terry Reedy wrote: > The only problem would be if someone put > the incantation into a non-main module named 'main.py', but the same is > true today of '__main__.py'. And I would consider either a buggy practice.
I often put the "real" main code into a separate module, so that it gets compiled to a .pyc, and sometimes I call that module "main.py". So this change would break a lot of my programs, and perhaps other people's as well. I think the situation with __main__ is different from __builtin__, because __builtin__ is an actual, specific module, whereas __main__ is a pseudo-module which stands in for a different thing in every Python program. So I'm in favour of keeping an __xxx__ name for it, to emphasise its magic nature. I'm much less likely to accidentally stomp on a magic name than a non-magic one. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
