On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:54 PM, mrstevegross<mrstevegr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a common way to initialize various stuff in a module? That > is, I have some code in my module that I want to run whenever the > module is imported. Currently, my module looks like this: > > === foo.py === > def something(): > ... > > def somethingelse(): > ... > > something() > === EOF === > > Is the 'something()' line at the end in an ok location? I just put it > at the end. Maybe there's some special __init__() mechanism for > modules? Or should I use the 'if __name__ != '__main__'' trick? >
I think what you are doing is fine. The only thing that I would do differently is rename 'something' to 'initialize'. That way your intent is really obvious. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
