Sorry for hijacking Alec's response but I didn't see the OP. > Aivar Annamaa <aivar.anna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for a trick or hidden feature to make Python 3 automatically > > call a "main" function but without programmers writing `if __name__ == > > "__main__": ...`
One direct way is to call it from the command line: python -c "import mymodule; mymodule.main()" After your students have had to use that verbose form for a while, they'll be more than happy to add the boilerplate themselves to the end of their modules :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
