Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > What it doesn't allow is for the testing of the 'if __name__ == > > "__main__":' clause itself. No matter how simple we make that, > > it's still functional code that can contain errors, be they > > obvious or subtle; yet it's code that *can't* be touched by the > > unit test (by design, it doesn't execute when the module is > > imported), leading to errors that won't be caught as early or > > easily as they might. > > You could always use runpy.run_module.
For values of "always" that include Python 2.5, of course. (I'm still coding to Python 2.4, until 2.5 is more widespread.) Thanks! I was unaware of that module. It does seem to nicely address the issue I discussed. -- \ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, | `\ Brain, but Zero Mostel times anything will still give you Zero | _o__) Mostel." -- _Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
