On Sun, Oct 3, 2021, 1:46 AM Christopher Barker > The if __name__ block is only required for a Python file to be both a > module and a script. > That’s actually a pretty uncommon thing— if it’s a module to be imported > by other modules, then it probably should be part of a package, and if the > functionality needs to be made available as a script, there can be another > module just for that. >
I think all the slightly different boilerplate forms suggested are needless. So on the main topic, -1. But as a note, I usually put a __name__=='__main__' block at the foot of my library code. The few functions in this particular file presumably do something useful, and hopefully composable. Why not allow command-line users to do just that one thing by itself? Sure, the predominant use is within a library, but being able to try out this functionality usually helps my development, and is sometimes useful to have around and composable in bash.
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