spir wrote: > On 04/01/2014 06:24 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: >> Hi Patti, >> >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Patti Scott <pscott...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I've been cheating: comment out the conditional statement and adjust >>> the indents. But, how do I make my program run with if __name__ == >>> 'main': >>> main() at the end? I thought I understood the idea to run a module >>> called >>> directly but not a module imported. My program isn't running, though. >> >> The simple fix to get you going is to change your ``if __name__ == >> 'main':`` statement to ``if __name__ == '__main__':`` (add two >> underscores on each side of "main"). To debug this for yourself, try >> putting ``print(__name__)`` right before your ``if __name__ ...`` >> line, and see what is printed when you run it in different ways. >> >> Hope this helps, and if you need any more help or a more in-depth >> explanation of what's going on, please don't hesitate to ask :) > > And you don't even need this idiom if your module is only to be executed > (not imported). Just write "main()".
How do you write tests for the code in the module then? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
