Thanks all my problem cleared. Bhagwat On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:02 PM, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 10:21 am, "Simon Brunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Bhagwat Kolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am new to the python and not getting meaning of following line, > > > > > if __name__ == '__main__': > > > main() > > > > The if statement is used to skip the code after the if statement in > certain situations. If that if statement is in a file named test1.py, > and you issue this command: > > $ python test1.py > > then the code after the if statement will execute. That's because > python assigns the string '__main__' to the variable __name__ when the > program starts > > However, if you do this: > > ------- > #test1.py > def my_func(num): > print num * 2 > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > print "Testing my func:", my_func(10) > > -------- > > #test2.py > import test1 > > test1.my_func(5) > > ------- > > ...and you issue the command: > > $python test2.py > > Then the code after the if statement in test1.py will not execute. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Bhagwat K "Play hard or go home"
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