On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 05:22:41PM +0000, Jonathan Fine wrote: > The module __main__ is somewhat special. It's there from the very beginning > (so far as I can tell).
https://docs.python.org/3/library/__main__.html [...] > 2. When initializing the built-in __main__ module, set > __main__ = True The `__main__` module is not so much a special built-in module as a role given to any old module. The `__main__` module is whatever module gets executed as the main module, if any, otherwise whatever module object gets created to house the top level scope of the Python interpreter. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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/XILGXK523O5EK7AQWILBWYJCRWHSSEFL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
