Hello, On Thu, 28 May 2020 09:06:36 -0000 redrad...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all, > > In Python we often use the following syntax to call the main logic of > script when it was ran: ```python > def main(): > pass # whatever should be done for `python ./script.py` > > if __name__ == '__main__': > main() > ``` > > Maybe it is a time to introduce the new module level function like > __main__ ? For as long as it works (it does), there's no need to introduce anything. However, if you want to add special features, adding __main__() can be useful. For example, for Python "strict mode" (which I hope to post for beating to this list one of these years), I need to explicitly separate "load time" from "run time" of a Python program. And to achieve that, I exactly introduce a "main" function, and even call it __main__ (so the name is taken!!111 ;-) ). And in all fairness, all good ideas already came to somebody else years ago. There's https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0299/ , successfully rejected yet back in 2002. (So, feel free to use it in your own environment/Python dialect.) [] -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/EPHA4JOFUMZS362GLHQMYFCEKMXKBV3Z/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
